Perpetual licence or no longer able to use which is it?
I currently have a license to IntelliJ Ultimate. I know my license going to expire later this month (3/13) and I've already received the emails from Jetbrains telling me my subscription will be renewed on 3/14. In that email, there is a link for "What happens if I don't renew?" and that link says:
When purchasing an annual subscription, you will immediately get a perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time.
So when I see this message in IntelliJ I'm confused. Will I be able to use the software "forever" or not?
Your IntelliJ IDEA subscription expires on 3/13/2018.
After this date you will no longer able to use IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1.5
After closer reading I believe that whatever version was available at the time I purchased my subscription is the version I'll be able to use "forever". Just one problem. When I've installed and kept current I've uninstalled my "old" version", so my questions are:
(Q) How can I find what version is associated with my perpetual forever license?
(Q) Does JetBrains support downloading of older versions? If so where do I go?
(Q) Is the same license key that I use for my subscription used for the "perpetual" license? Or is there a different license key. If it's different where do I go to download it?
(Q) If/when I renew subscription, will I receive a new license key?
I can probably search and find these answers, but wanted the question in case others were curious, and for me in another year.
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Well, it didn't take long to find the answers. JetBrains has done a great job in making this easy. Here's what I found:
(Q) How can I find what version is associated with my perpetual forever license?
(A) After logging onto my JetBrains account, I see "Fallback versions" Multiple products. When I click on the link I see the name of the product, the version (2016.3) and a download link.
(Q) Does JetBrains support downloading of older versions? If so where do I go?
(A) See above answer.
I don't have answers to the other questions (yet).
>(Q) Is the same license key that I use for my subscription used for the "perpetual" license? Or is there a different license key. If it's different where do I go to download it?
Yes, the key is the same.
>(Q) If/when I renew subscription, will I receive a new license key?
Yes, you will get a new license key.
You can contact sales team if you have any questions about the licenses.