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Other devs make a version 2 that is considered by the dev to be a different product and not subject to the lifetime license of the previous version.

IANAL so I don't know how legally sound that is.

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It's normal. My Affinity license is a lifetime license. It doesn't include version 2, but I still have the license to the original. Similarly, any non-subscription Microsoft Office license is a "lifetime" license. You'll get security updates as long as that version is supported, and afterwards, well, it still works... your license just doesn't expire.

It just also doesn't grant you access to newer versions.

There’s a big difference between the two. What you mention is usually not called a lifetime license, while the mIRC one states "with current and future versions of mIRC"

It should be noted that the Microsoft Office license doesn't say anything about supporting future versions, while the mIRC license does.

I don't anal but this is indeed a common practice.

It's old timey internet slang from the 1990s for "I Am Not A Lawyer"

And for everyone else, don't give me push back for "old timey" - there's people out of college now that were born after 2000. Plenty of people weren't there.

The adage of interaction on the internet: others are younger and less sober than you assume

That whistling sound? It’s the joke flying over your head.

It was pretty funny in 1994 when I and everyone else thought of it and saw it the first 50 times. I don't think someone is that daft. Far more likely they're young and have never seen it. It's a 17 day old account.

Why would someone seriously say that? I dunno, genZ is weirdly open about stuff and I really don't understand them. Best to not assume

Old timey or not, I didn't expect to get that joke here. Searching HN, it is pretty regularly used here.

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