Time & Feature Restrictions of Community Licensing

Community Licensing is now available for SciChart.js (JavaScript) post version 3.2! Find out below the following information:

	
Terms & who can use it
Time & Feature Restrictions
Tech Support in Trial & for Community users
Telemetry & Watermark info

Q: Are there are feature restrictions or limitations in the Community Edition?

All the features of SciChart.js are included in the Community Edition. All 2D Charts, all 3D charts. 

The only differences between community and a commercial (paid) license are:

• A watermark will be displayed on the chart
• Some console.log messages will be sent to JS console saying that this is the community edition
• No technical support is offered to community edition users of SciChart.js
• The community edition sends telemetry via App Analytics (more info at Watermark and Telemetry page)
• There is a timeout in the community version requiring you to update & redeploy every 6-months (more info below)

Q: Explain about the 6-month Timeout in SciChart.js Community?

Each version of SciChart.js has a build date-stamp and an expiry date-stamp built-in. 

By default, the expiry date-stamp is 6 months after the build date. 

That means if you download version 3.2 of SciChart.js which was built on 20th May 2023, this will work with a watermark until 20th November 2023. After this time the chart will show an error message. 

Errors messages will be:

You have X days remaining on the community license for this version. Please update to the latest version of SciChart

and then after expiry

Sorry! This version of SciChart is too old to be used for the community edition. Please update to the latest version 

To work around this limitation, all you have to do is download / integrate the latest version of SciChart.js and redeploy, which has a new 6-month expiry date built-in.

Stay up to date & use the latest version and you can run a non-commercial application indefinitely using the community version of SciChart.js.