You should know that DotNetNuke has one great feature – the ability to host many portals on one database and code line (a single DNN Installation). This means that you can have many completely non-related parent and child portals with very little overhead and server admin. In the past, the License Agreement on SunBlog(Nuke) was very vague and relaxed – basically you could use the modules on as many portals and DNN installations as you wanted. While this was great for the customer/subscriber, it was a little unrealistic and unsustainable for us in the long run. So we think that the [Portal License] is the best way forward and the most fair.

Modules/Products of License Agreement

So to summarize, we will adjust the license with the key information as follows:

  • Affects new customers only.

  • Affects new modules versions only (starting with the v2.4.8 in September, 2009).

  • Old modules fall under the old license and continue to be used as such. The old Professional license equals to the new Enterprise license and the old Enterprise license equals to the new Enterprise Developer license.

  • Should not affect the majority of customers for average use (if it does we will tweak the license limits).

  • The modules now have built in license checking to display an error message if the license limit is breached.

If you have more questions, please feel free to contact us, or by sending e-mail directly to us at dnnsun@gmail.com. We will try to reply you ASAP.

The SunBlogNuke team