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Free developer licenses have arrived

0 Comment(s) | published by Danny H. on Monday, August 02, 2010

As we promised a few months ago, we've continued offering a way to try out LemonStand for free.

Developer licenses allow you to evaluate LemonStand for a particular project, or develop modules and themes without buying a commercial license.

There's just one hitch: you can only have 10 active orders in the system. That's the only limitation! We felt this was pretty reasonable, considering we're providing an unadulterated version of LemonStand for free. If you need to go above 10 orders for testing, you can simply delete old test orders. Or upgrade to a commercial license. Which brings me to my next point.

Developer installations can be upgraded

That means you can use a developer license to evaluate LemonStand for a particular project, then seamlessly upgrade it to a commercial copy. So all the work you put into implementing your HTML/CSS theme and configuring settings needn't go to waste.

1 license = 1 website

As with the commercial license, each developer license can only be used for a single website. A "single website" = 2 environments, typically. So you could set up a test environment, and a dev environment, perhaps. This will also ensure that if you upgrade your license in the future, it will go smoothly.

Technical details

To run a developer copy of LemonStand, you'll need either ZendGuard or IonCube PHP loader to be installed. The developer version contains a few encrypted files, whereas the commercial version does not contain any encrypted files.

To install LemonStand developer version and ensure compatibility on your server, you can read this article.

Developer licenses are the new beta

During the beta program, licenses were free. But installations using a key that is in "beta" status cannot be updated anymore.

To fix that, just log into your account, click on the license, and convert it to a developers license.

This will apply the order # limit. That this is why we've kept this optional.

After you convert your license to a developer version, you must force update your installations for the changes to take affect.