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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    MoerBoer
    Posts: 210 from 2019/10/15
    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.
  • »17.10.19 - 19:55
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    emeck
    Posts: 168 from 2014/7/15
    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 ]
    PowerBook 5.8 MorphOS 3.18
    Mac Mini MorphOS 3.18
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    ernsteiswuerfel
    Posts: 545 from 2015/6/18
    From: Funeralopolis
    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.
    Talos II. [Gentoo Linux] | PMac G5 11,2. PMac G4 3,6. PBook G4 5,8. [MorphOS 3.18 / Gentoo Linux] | Vampire V4 SA [ApolloOS / Amiga OS 3.2.2]
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Amigaharry2
    Posts: 1210 from 2010/1/6
    From: EU-Austria (Wien)
    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?)
    Peg2, 3xPowerMac G5, 2xPowerbookG4, 2x MacMiniG4, Efika (again), A3000T and life is never boring.....
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  • jPV
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    jPV
    Posts: 2021 from 2003/2/24
    From: po-RNO
    Quote:

    Amigaharry2 wrote:
    My Pegasos-key is from MOS 2.0.........

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

    Quote:

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

    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.
  • »18.10.19 - 04:55
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    MoerBoer
    Posts: 210 from 2019/10/15
    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?
  • »18.10.19 - 06:31
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2231 from 2003/2/24
    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 ]
  • »18.10.19 - 06:39
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    MoerBoer
    Posts: 210 from 2019/10/15
    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 :)
  • »18.10.19 - 06:58
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  • MorphOS Developer
    geit
    Posts: 1030 from 2004/9/23
    Quote:

    MoerBoer wrote:
    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 :)


    So, Kronos did something useful. Thats a first :D
  • »18.10.19 - 09:14
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