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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/8/2021 6:59 PM, Dymaxion Development wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 2:53:15 PM UTC-4, Volker Halle wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> you can use $ LICENSE UNLOAD <license-name> to unload the license in the running system. $ LICENSE LOAD will reverse that operation, if there is a problem.
>>
>> You can also $ LICENSE DISABLE <license-name> to disable the automatic loading of that license from the LMF database during startup. Later on you can $ LICENSE DELETE <license-name> to permanently delete the license from the LMF database file, if it's not needed anymore.
>>
>> Volker.
>
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering then on Jan/2022, the old license will expire and the new one just take over? Then I can delete the old one at any time. Or will the system see the old license first and I have to delete the old one before the new one becomes active?
>
> I get the process of enabling/disabling. I am not sure about what is old license enables and if I disable/unload the old one what happens in the meantimei.e. do I have to do something before the new ones become active?
>
> Thanks
>

Not an expert, but the way I understand it, if a license is valid, it will load. 
  If a license is loaded, VMS and layered products will use it.

If there are multiple licenses loaded, I'm guessing VMS will use one of them. 
Don't know how it chooses.  If one expires, then VMS will use whichever is still 
valid, if any.

Not sure you actually have to do anything, as long as a valid license is loaded.

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