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New license policy?

#1

Hi everybody,

I noticed that the Sales FAQ page (https://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq) now states the following:

Expiration Date
Licenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

Last time I checked the license was valid for 3 years, after which you didn’t get updates anymore. I’m assuming they changed their policy and now every major version will require a new license, but the license for the purchased version never expires and I can still receive updates after 3 years, am I right? Is this how it works now for both Sublime Text and Sublime Merge?

Thanks!

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#2

That part of the page hasn’t changed since its inception (exception for the major version numbers), here’s the web archive from 2012 stating the same thing for ST2 → ST3 licenses: https://web.archive.org/web/20120204212834/https://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq. You may be confusing the page with Sublime Merge’s, which does have the expiry: https://www.sublimehq.com/sales_faq.

That being said, we are going to transition to the expiry model with Sublime Text 4, but as that hasn’t been announced yet the sales page hasn’t been updated yet.

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#3

Hi,

yes, I think I was confusing the page with Sublime Merge’s one. Thanks for the clarification about this.

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#4

In your defense, the buy page states it explicitly as well:

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#5

Hi,

thank you, that’s why I was confusing things. I know I read it somewhere, regarding ST.

So to recap, both ST (from v4) and SM have the 3 years expiry model.

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