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Upgrading Sublime and renewal of license via upgrade

#1

Hello,
today, I upgraded my sublime; the bad news was that my license was put to expiration, and that I was enforce to pay a new 80$ to continue.

I am in open source, I do not pay for updates, moreover when I already paid a license before.

At least, the minimum would be to warn the user just before upgrading. This is bad commercial practices, I was using Sublime since many years.

I have decided to migrate to another opensource IDE, cost free.

Wish that sublime, after many developers to leave will reconsider its position…

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#2

If you’re using Windows or macOS our update dialog does warn that your license doesn’t cover the next version. Unfortunately if you’re using a Linux package manager this isn’t possible, however if you’re using apt you can easily downgrade using apt install sublime-text=4169.

Some things to note though: Our licenses do not expire, but they only cover updates made within 3 years of purchase; you use the latest version your license covers forever. Additionally we don’t nag if your license doesn’t cover a version.

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#3

Thanks for the answer. Geany for instance does the same job, with not this burden. Working with not up-to-date software is not a good habit. Hence no choice: pay or leave…

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#4

Also, once your license coverage expires, you can still use it for “free” without limitations only with an occasional dialog box asking you to upgrade.

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#5

The forum must be getting the point where all these “I didn’t read how the license I bought works and would like to post this fact publically” threads could be rolled into one?

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#6

If one does pay for an upgraded licence, how long does it take to arrive?

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#7

We email licenses as soon as we’re notified of the payment completing, this usually takes at most a few minutes depending on payment method. If our email isn’t in your spam folder either I suggest contacting support: support@sublimetext.com.

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#8

Good afternoon!

It’s time for me to renew my sublime bundle - but I noticed there doesn’t seem to be a discount for renewing (vs new purchase).

Is renewal any different from a repurchase (either for users or for you on the back-end)?

If not, what is the benefit of renewing (no price break) over buying a new license?

Thanks!!

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#9

You can upgrade your license on our upgrade page: https://www.sublimehq.com/store/upgrade

We discount both the individual licenses, as well as the bundle, when upgrading.

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#10

I own license for ST+SM bundle, but considering that for my personal stuff I use Fossil and not Git, I plan to upgrade license for ST only.

However, not sure when the license will expire and what does happen if one upgrade before the expiration of old license: will the 3 year period of new license be added or one will lose remaining credit?

SIncerely,
Gour

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#11

There’s no crediting or anything like that, a license covers 3 years worth of updates regardless of what license you upgrade from. There’s no reason to upgrade your license until Sublime Text asks you to.

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