From the course: Migrating from Lightroom Classic CC
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What about Lightroom 6 and perpetual licenses?
From the course: Migrating from Lightroom Classic CC
What about Lightroom 6 and perpetual licenses?
- What about if you are a Lightroom 6 owner or an earlier version? This is often referred to as boxed software or perpetual license. Now, there's a lot of confusion on what owning software actually means. You don't actually own the software. What you own is a license to use it. In the past, Adobe would issue these perpetual licenses. If you bought a version of Lightroom, you would be able to use that version of Lightroom for a certain period of time. Now, the time was not based on a calendar. Rather, it was based upon how long Adobe would continue to add new features and support. Typically what would happen is that functionality would be added for a certain period of time with free updates, and then in the future, under the hood, Adobe could choose to update Camera Raw. And Camera Raw would add support for new versions of cameras that came out. But if you own Lightroom version four from many, many years ago and you bought a brand new DSLR tomorrow, well, that DSLR probably won't work…
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