Question: What happens to GoCD agent when the Java wrapper tanuki license expired?

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Danny Ling

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Feb 17, 2021, 2:58:07 AM2/17/21

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So I was trying to setup multiple agents on single machine today and noticed these Java service wrapper license under Tanuki from the file /usr/share/go-agent/wrapper-config/wrapper.conf (on ubuntu).

Specifically these.

wrapper.license.dev_application=GoCD Agent On Linux
wrapper.license.features=64bit
wrapper.license.upgrade_term.begin_date=2008-06-03
wrapper.license.upgrade_term.end_date=2021-06-03

Knowing that the end date here is this year June, what will happen when the date arrived in 4 months time?

Will GoCD agent refuse to start when a restart occured?

Yes we have currently fixed GoCD agent to be specifically on a version, namely 20.8.0-12213

Asking this because I encountered deny startup by the java service wrapper when there's some misconfiguration on the file.

Appreciate if anyone from the team can help me understand abit more on this.

Thanks!

Aravind SV

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Feb 17, 2021, 5:26:03 AM2/17/21

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Hello Danny, ,

Knowing that the end date here is this year June, what will happen when the date arrived in 4 months time?
Will GoCD agent refuse to start when a restart occured?

No, nothing should happen. This license has been renewed every year for the last 10 to 12 years. It will be again. But, even if it doesn’t, there is no issue. Existing applications continue to work.

You can read more about the license used here: https://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/licenseDevelopment.html

As you can see in the section called “License Term”, it is mentioned that the term end date has no effect on the working of the wrapper. The effect of not renewing it will be an inability to release new versions of GoCD with that wrapper. Since GoCD is open-source, ideally the Community License Agreement should apply. However, as you can see in a note on the download page, “64-bit Windows versions of the Java Service Wrapper are not currently being made available in the Community Edition”.