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What happens if Wincent stops trading?

When discussing product activation people sometimes ask:

What happens if Wincent stops trading at some point in the future and the activation server goes off-line forever? How can people continue to enjoy the software they’ve licensed if they can’t activate it?

I have no plans to discontinue trading but recognize that this is a frequently voiced concern about product activation, so I make the following undertaking:

In the event that Wincent should stop trading it will do one of the following at its discretion:

  1. Make available for free download updated versions of all products with the product activation requirements removed. These versions would be freely redistributable.
  2. Make available special license codes which turn off the product activation requirement. These codes would be freely redistributable.
  3. Release the source code for the protected applications under an open source license such as the GPL or the BSD license.