perpetual licensing

If i purchase the advanced perpetual licensing, how long will that last? Does that just apply to the v5 version. What is the average time for having to do the 289 dollar upgrade after purchasing the advanced perpetual license. Thanks.

Roy

I understand that this gives you the rights to use version 5 “for ever”. Minor upgrades within version 5 are available at no additional cost. A new version ( HW 6 ?) will require a new licence. MDA has, in the past, offered upgrades to a new version at favourable costs to those with licences for earlier versions.
Iain

HW version 4 was probably around for at least 5 years before HW 5 was released. My 4.2 manual is dated 2015.
Iain

[mdyde]

Hello Roy,

Thanks very much for the interest in buying a licence.

Yes -- to confirm Iain's reply (thanks very much as always, Iain) -- a perpetual licence for Hauptwerk allows you to use the major version of Hauptwerk that you purchased (e.g. v5 currently) indefinitely on platforms listed for it in its prerequisites. (If you buy a licence for v5 and you want to continue running v5 50 years from now then that's fine, as long as you still have a computer that can run it, i.e. principally 64-bit Intel/AMD Windows 10, Windows 7, or 64-bit Intel macOS 10.13.6-10.15.) Support for future computer platforms/hardware/operating systems will usually be added in new major versions of Hauptwerk.

Here's an except from the release notice on licence types and upgrades:

For ‘perpetual’ (non-subscription) licenses, upgrades between minor Hauptwerk versions (for example between v5.0.0 and v5.0.1) are free to users with a valid license for v5, but a license upgrade must be purchased to upgrade between major versions (for example between v4 and v5), or between different Hauptwerk editions. All version upgrades are included with subscription licenses (during the period for which the subscription has been paid for).

Thanks for the information