License Key for the JobScheduler
Question:
JobScheduler asks for a license key, isn't this software Open Source?
Answer:
Running JobScheduler on Unix with the binary file ./bin/scheduler
or on Windows with the file ./bin/scheduler.exe
will result in the error message:
...
To start JobScheduler use the shell script ./bin/jobscheduler.sh
(Unix) or ./bin/jobscheduler.cmd
(Windows). The binary files are parametrized by the start script. One of the parameters (-sos.ini=...
) in the start script addresses the licence license file ./config/sos.ini
, that contains a free licence an Open Source License key for the GPL version of JobScheduler.
There is no difference between GPL and commercially supported licensed versions, in fact this is a technical license key that helps us to identify commercial customers in case of support incidents.