I'm strongly considering purchasing a license for MorphOS.

I've read the website and I can't seem to get an answer for this.
When buying a license, is it locked to that version of MorphOS ( i.e. 3.12 ), or will it be usable for future releases and for how many versions?

Thanks.

It is locked to the hardware for which you bought the license, not to the OS version.

I have my key since MOS 3.8 if I remember right, and have installed every upgrade released, so 4 times. Always free!

Correction, bought my first key for MOS 3.6 so 6 free upgrades since then.

[ Edited by emeck 17.10.2019 - 22:12 ]

The key is locked to the hardware, but you get future updates for free. If your hardware fails you can transfer it to a new machine.

I'm in the boat since MorphOS 3.8 (I think?) with a PowerBook G4 5,4. This one broke so my key was kindly transfered to a new PowerBook G4 5,8 which I am running now. All the same license up to 3.12 now.

My Pegasos-key is from MOS 2.0.........

I think that we have to pay at the next major-release - e.g. switching to new platform (MOS 4.x?)

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My too, and all those updates have been free during over 10 years.

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Isn't that natural without changing the licencing scheme? :) It happens with the current scheme if you change the machine, so platform change makes you to buy a new licence anyway.

Thanks all.

Just a final question, is the license created as a "snapshot" of the machine as it is right now?

If I decide to add more RAM or swap out the HDD for a SSD, will I require a new key?

Licence is tied to the MAC address of the motherboard nic, so you can change/upgrade any other part of the computer without issue.


@AmigaHarry

If MorphOS4.0/NG/64 is released for PPC too (which I expect) it's very likely that any 3.x key would still be valid (AFAIK there are no 64bit systems that could have been registered before 3.0).

[ Edited by Kronos 18.10.2019 - 08:41 ]

Thanks Kronos, and if it wasn't for you posting on MacRumors, I would not have known that my iMac G5 was supported in the new 3.12 :)

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So, Kronos did something useful. Thats a first :D