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I know people who love Sublime but are worried about it disappearing, or paying for an upgrade only to see development to stall. It's good to see that the Subl
by signal11 5y ago
I know people who love Sublime but are worried about it disappearing, or paying for an upgrade only to see development to stall.
It's good to see that the Sublime team have responded to this with a licensing model that rewards them for releasing updates:
> Sublime Text license keys are no longer tied to a single major version, instead they are now valid for all updates within 3 years of purchase. After that, you will still have full access to every version of Sublime Text released within the 3 year window, but newer builds will required a license upgrade.
- nly 5y agoI'm curious how this works at the technical level. The license key presumable encodes both an expiry date and what version numbers it is valid for when it was issued (and therefore will continue to work for even after expiry)?
- J_tt 5y agoI'm assuming there's just a licensing server keeping track of each license key and it's purchase date along with each versions release date. I don't see any need for encoding this data within the license key
- nly 5y agoI don't think it communicates back to them when used.
- ben-schaaf 5y agoLicenses encode an issue date and builds have a build date.
- nly 5y agoOf course!