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I've sold multi-year and perpetual EE licenses for this exact reason -- to reduce risk of eventually losing EE features if Keygen LLC goes under and is unable t
by ezekg 2y ago
I've sold multi-year and perpetual EE licenses for this exact reason -- to reduce risk of eventually losing EE features if Keygen LLC goes under and is unable to renew EE licenses. So in this case, if Keygen LLC goes under, they still have a perpetual EE license that will allow them to use existing EE features. But this is something I've been thinking about lately, and something my customers have been talking about. I want to come up with a better answer other than "well, pay me for a perpetual license and we'll remove that risk."
Maybe some kind of clause for a "Change License" in case Keygen LLC goes under, e.g. we go from ELv2 to Apache 2.0 if that happens. I'm not really sure what that'd look like right now, but I'll keep thinking on this and hopefully come up with a good answer eventually.
Outside of that, nothing is really stopping somebody from forking Keygen and reimplementing the EE features 'in-spirit' under a new code path, especially if Keygen LLC has gone bust. They just can't remove or copy the existing EE features verbatim.