5.1 upgrade: licence?

Bill Lloyd b.lloyd at mac.com
Wed Oct 13 08:08:51 PDT 2004


On Oct 13, 2004, at 3:17 AM, Ken Case wrote:

> On Oct 13, 2004, at 3:04 AM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
>> I've only just bought OmniWeb 5.0, yet when OW alerted me that the 
>> 5.1 b2 was available (I already had b1) it said this would be a paid 
>> upgrade, that I would need a new licence.
>
> Sorry about that!  The "paid upgrade" alert was caused by a bug in 5.1 
> beta 1; if you check for updates from 5.0.1 it won't say anything 
> about paying for the upgrade.  (This bug was fixed in beta 2, so you 
> shouldn't encounter this alert when the next release is available.)

Glad to see this was a known issue and was fixed... I kept seeing this 
"no valid licenses" issue along with the default home page.. I was 
sorta wondering what was going on!

>> Is this the case? As I said, i've only just bought v5. I didn't 
>> anticipate having to pay for an upgrade so soon.
>
> Your license to OmniWeb 5 will be good for all OmniWeb 5 releases 
> (5.1, 5.2, ..., 5.5, and so on).
>
>> Thank you for any enlightenment on this one. I thought I should post 
>> it instead of emailing it via Feedback, as I may not be the only 
>> person confused by this.
>
> Good idea; I expect you're right!

Yep ;-)




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