q: Owned license has expired, am I entitled to security patches?

[niceguy2010]

For free and for the lifetime of the supported version?

Again. license expired, want to security patch, not interested in renewing.

Please advise.

[Mike Anime]

i do believe you do get those free till EOL of your version.

[nforums]

Yes you do, well your supposed to.

If you're on 3.8, the EOL will be when 4.2 is released.

[AntonLargiader]

Really? That's not my impression. V4 licenses entitle you to upgrades for the life of V4, but I thought V3 licenses only entitled you to upgrades during the valid period of the license. Once our V3 license expired, we could no longer access the download area.

[aussiefooty]

Really? That's not my impression. V4 licenses entitle you to upgrades for the life of V4, but I thought V3 licenses only entitled you to upgrades during the valid period of the license. Once our V3 license expired, we could no longer access the download area.

If you upgrade your owned license you will be able to keep your forum running and have it running on version 4 if you want that or you can keep your forum running on 3.8

[Al Zander]

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I believe the question was specifically about security patches, not upgrades. To quote a competitor, for comparison: "security patches are generally provided regardless of your license status". These are not upgrades, but patches in vulnerability holes, akin to product recalls in any other manufacturing industry (like automobile or laptop, for example; doesn't matter if you're out of warranty, if there's a recall for a defect/vulnerability [exploding battery or gas tank], your product gets the required "patch"). I'll leave the official answer to the vB staff.

[AntonLargiader]

If you upgrade your owned license you will be able to keep your forum running and have it running on version 4 if you want that or you can keep your forum running on 3.8

Yes, but the OP was talking about an expired owned license. AFAIK that means you get no access to upgrades or security patches, but you can continue to use the software that you had when the license expired.

[bigwater]

Previously security patches were available until EOL for any expired owned licence, but I can't tell now. The licensing issue has been so jumbled up with the changes in the release of 4 that we'll just have to wait until we can get an official word from IB about it.

[AntonLargiader]

... we'll just have to wait until we can get an official word from IB about it.

Don't hold your breath for that, especially since this isn't a pre-sale question about VB4.

[Dave B]

We already know what the official attitude of IB is...fraid you are out of luck

[shohin]

We already know what the official attitude of IB is...fraid you are out of luck

lol...Yep, pay up or shut up!