Licensed and Non-Licensed version

[L1cardo]

I have a question:

• What is the differences between Licensed and Non-Licensed version. or is it just a donation method ?

I am s student who is using fork for over six month and found it really amazing. I want to know the differences between Licensed and Non-Licensed version so that I can decide whether to pay.
I want to make a donation for such an amazing app, but $49.9 is a bit high.

[Niid]

Hi ! For now this is just a donation method, and then it will basically get mandatory to get a license to support the devs. It is a one-time purchase, see Forkissues/TrackerWin#571 for more info.

The announcement has been made on the Windows bug tracker but it's quite safe to assume that this is valid for both Windows and IOS.

[DanPristupov]

It was also here: #562 (comment)

[tbm98]

Hi @DanPristupov.
I think so.
Many students cannot afford to pay $ 50. I think it is advisable to limit some functions to the users who have activated.
I am also a student.

[DanPristupov]

We are not going to block the application (or any particular features) in the non-licensed version. If you can't pay for Fork right now, just use it and don't mind :). If in the future Fork helps you to earn money, please consider buying it.

[tbm98]

Oh Thank you!
In the future I will buy it if I can. Thank you very much!

[Someguynamedpie]

We are not going to block the application (or any particular features) in the non-licensed version. If you can't pay for Fork right now, just use it and don't mind :). If in the future Fork helps you to earn money, please consider buying it.

I deeply appreciate this stance, and this alone has convinced me to pay at my nearest capability. I am pretty concerned by the activation limit however as I have several development machines (2 work, 3 personal) so please reconsider either upping it or removing it (and revocation of abusers, of course)

[ChadTaljaardt]

If you aren't going to block any features from the non licensed versions, why is there an activation limit?

[rbq]

I would like to buy, but I don't want any of the disadvantages DRM introduces, such as software phoning home, depending on a remote licensing server, not working after migrating to a new machine, etc. Could you introduce an option to just buy a license and use Fork without any additional anti-features? I just want to pay, not deal with any of that "activation" nonsense.

[DanPristupov]

@rbq We have limited resources and don't have time to support multiple versions.

[lexxmt]

I would like to buy, but I don't want any of the disadvantages DRM introduces, such as software phoning home, depending on a remote licensing server, not working after migrating to a new machine, etc. Could you introduce an option to just buy a license and use Fork without any additional anti-features? I just want to pay, not deal with any of that "activation" nonsense.

let me know when you get version without DRM protection / Will be happy to buy it.