Must uninstall Advanced Pack if the license is not renewed

[emillod]

Hello item ,

I spoke with my Associate today, and we need to keep in mind that many companies chose to use EspoCRM because of its previous licensing model. These companies invest money and time into EspoCRM extensions, development, employee training, etc. In many cases, they make these investments to avoid being forced into something, as the author mentioned. I think this is a valid argument.

I’m not saying that EspoCRM team doesn’t deserve compensation for their work, because obviously they are. Just want to highlight that Customers might be concerned. Today they have to start paying a subscription for extensions, and in a year or two, they may have to pay for using EspoCRM. We’ve seen similar situations happen with other open-source software in the past. I remember OTRS ticketing system. They dropped community version and now only paid version is available.

So, this may not be about people having negative thoughts or being unwilling to pay for something—they may have legitimate concerns.

[item]

Hi @emillod,
haaa not received still email.. but this is good news.


Please Yuri, make too a "Long Terms Licencing" like 3years or 5years ... it's just a Accounting (like leasing a car) in belgium and me don't have .. advanced Pack extension don't work because i have forget to renew or ask to the Boss

[emillod]

This is part of the license agreement:
11.2 Upon termination of the Agreement for any reason, or upon expiration of the license, you are required to uninstall the Software and destroy all copies of the Software, including Upgrades and all related components in your possession. Additionally, upon Letrium's request, you must certify the destruction of these copies.

I understand your frustration. Many of my customers who purchased EspoCRM extensions were also disappointed because the model has now shifted to a subscription. Previously, they could use the extension as long as it was compatible with their current version of EspoCRM. Perhaps in the future, an alternative one-time payment license will be introduced.

But that is the right of the authors of these extensions. We must also acknowledge the amount of effort required to maintain all of these products.

+ if you renew before expiration, you'll get a discount

[item]

This post is critize post

i am old school, so front-end, npm, phpstan, github, i don't know, i can't utilse. so only my "help" can be on forum with my experiment or on typo in github.
Actually espoCrm have 1.9k of star in github ?

Can someone say me if this "star value of 1.9k" is really the good value ?

I know recently (github espocrm), "phpmailer" library have "stop", so now Yuri must maintain this library because nobody contribute.
So, if you look some post "we offer service with espoCrm" with "1 post" .. do you think is "pleasant" with no contribute ?

I can say, some person here on forum, like emillod, rabii, kargh,... who participate on forum for help, on github, on free extension or ... must be "soft licencing" (soft = cool )

So this decision of Yuri.. i accept, i can understand.. but "dommage" for some people.

Best regards

PS : it's just my opinion about..
PS2 : Yuri have make a incredible crm/extension..

[item]

Hi bandtank,
i have not received the mail.
And all we know, all espocrm extention have many many work for ehancement/maintenance .. i can not imagine the duration

Yuri can maybe find a "another solution" like "Long Terms Licence", for 5years maybe.. for X amount

If i understand, in french "c'est une decision radicale".. maybe find a "soft licencing solution".

PS : i dont critize nobody.. it's just my idea... win-win (i work only for non-profit )

Best Regards

[bandtank]

I received an email today about renewing the license for the Advanced Pack. The following comments are from the email:

If you fail to renew your license by this date, you will have to uninstall the extension from your instance and delete all downloaded extension packages to comply with licensing terms.

This is news to me. I thought the license for the Advanced Pack allows perpetual use without upgrades if the license is not renewed after the subscription period. Did the license change? If this is not a mistake, I will be moving away from EspoCRM, which is very unfortunate considering I have invested thousands of hours into the ecosystem. I'm happy to pay for the Advanced Pack, but the point of moving to EspoCRM was to avoid forced licensing.