Zugg Software :: View topic - Re-Liscensing?

Wanderer Joined: 29 Jun 2002 Posts: 69 Location: USA

Was kinda weird. Ive been using ZMud now Id say a good solid 4 years, and today when I turned on my machine I was asked to re-register my ZMud. Weirdest thing was that when I went to the liscence screen the code was already entered in. Now, my question is, why? Not that it affected me too much, but I was just wondering wiy it required me to get my code again.

Richard Powell
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Beginner Joined: 15 Oct 2000 Posts: 24 Location: USA

you have to do this every 90 days...no idea why you didn't have to before...

babyl

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

The reason why you probably didn't have to do it before is that you must have upgraded to version of zMUD that uses eLicense some 90 days ago.

You have to do this every 90 days because the eLicense system allows you to have up to three separate copies of zMUD licensed with the same license. If you loose one of them without being able to unlicense first (formatting the hard drive is a common cause), you will then end up having only two licenses. If this happens two times more, you will not be able to use zMUD and you loose the money you paid for the license. Luckily, licenses are set to auto-expire every 90 days. That is why you saw the window asking you to re-license zMUD, because your licensed had auto-expired. The license was already entered, because it remembers it to make the whole process easier.

With this system, in the event that you loose a license, you have to wait at most 90 days before you get it back.

Kjata