[Info-vax] Hobbyist license expiry and transition to new license

[Dymaxion Development]

On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 2:25:24 PM UTC-4, Dymaxion Development wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 2:14:47 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > On 2021-12-08 18:02:58 +0000, Dymaxion Development said: 
> > 
> > > We have an OpenVMS hobbyist license that is set to expire on Dec 
> > > 31st/2021. We have applied a commercial permanent license and it is 
> > > showing as active. Just wondering if it will be okay to remove the 
> > > hobbyist license and let the permanent one takeover? Or can we leave 
> > > the hobbyist license in place and when it expires, it seamlessly 
> > > transitions over to the permanent one? 
> > Presumably there has been an OpenVMS upgrade here, as the HPE licenses 
> > apply to HP versions, and the VSI licenses to VSI versions. 
> > 
> > Unless an HPE license was scrounged from somewhere such as HPEFS, 
> > there's an OpenVMS upgrade happening here. 
> > 
> > If you want to switch licenses, you'll generally need to manually 
> > register and manually load the incoming licenses and then unload and 
> > disable the outgoing licenses, and usually performing those two steps 
> > in that order. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC
> Yes, an upgrade. They have a procedure that reports on expiring licenses and it's nagging that the hobbyist license is expiring. I thought that by removing the hobbyist license would negate the warning as long as the permanent one is in place and enabled/active. 
> 
> So they have applied the permanent non-expiring license already. You are saying it is safe to disable the hobbyist license in advance? I don't see an option to "unload" in the VMSLICENSE utility.

Maybe I am overthinking it. If the new license are in place, on Dec 31st when the hobbyist expires, will the new ones automatically take over without having to do anything?