NPL start and End date are strange

[numma_cway]

2017-12-13 12:34:56.795374|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Licensing Information
2017-12-13 12:34:56.795460|INFO    |Accounting    |   |type              : Non-profit
2017-12-13 12:34:56.795502|INFO    |Accounting    |   |starting date     : Fri Jul  7 00:00:00 2017
2017-12-13 12:34:56.795539|INFO    |Accounting    |   |ending date       : Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 2018
2017-12-13 12:34:56.795570|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max virtualservers: 10
2017-12-13 12:34:56.795591|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max slots         : 512

2017-12-15 15:40:36.448442|INFO    |              |   |License expired, but there is a new one available.. retrieving
2017-12-15 15:40:36.610036|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Your license was updated by the licensing server
2017-12-15 15:40:36.759131|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Licensing Information
2017-12-15 15:40:36.759217|INFO    |Accounting    |   |type              : Non-profit
2017-12-15 15:40:36.759256|INFO    |Accounting    |   |starting date     : Sat Dec  9 00:00:00 2017
2017-12-15 15:40:36.759295|INFO    |Accounting    |   |ending date       : Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 2018
2017-12-15 15:40:36.759456|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max virtualservers: 10
2017-12-15 15:40:36.759498|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max slots         : 512

"Your license expired and we updated it with one with the same end date."

[Schlumpi]

It seems the ending date is purely cosmetic, and essentially every license may be expired immediately, if someone at the licensing server chooses to end ones license prematurely.

This is the licensing expiry/renew stuff that happened on the server operated for my community:

2017-10-11 21:12:59.288697|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Licensing Information
2017-10-11 21:12:59.289400|INFO    |Accounting    |   |type              : Non-profit
2017-10-11 21:12:59.289893|INFO    |Accounting    |   |starting date     : Sun Jun 18 00:00:00 2017
2017-10-11 21:12:59.290390|INFO    |Accounting    |   |ending date       : Sat Dec 23 00:00:00 2017
2017-10-11 21:12:59.290841|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max virtualservers: 10
2017-10-11 21:12:59.291298|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max slots         : 512

2017-12-02 01:06:03.991800|INFO    |              |   |License expired, but there is a new one available.. retrieving
2017-12-02 01:06:04.125845|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Your license was updated by the licensing server
2017-12-02 01:06:04.304794|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Licensing Information
2017-12-02 01:06:04.304847|INFO    |Accounting    |   |type              : Non-profit
2017-12-02 01:06:04.304879|INFO    |Accounting    |   |starting date     : Fri Dec  1 00:00:00 2017
2017-12-02 01:06:04.304903|INFO    |Accounting    |   |ending date       : Sat Jun 23 00:00:00 2018
2017-12-02 01:06:04.304924|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max virtualservers: 10
2017-12-02 01:06:04.304944|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max slots         : 512

2017-12-15 17:20:24.544199|INFO    |              |   |License expired, but there is a new one available.. retrieving
2017-12-15 17:20:24.669526|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Your license was updated by the licensing server
2017-12-15 17:20:24.905552|INFO    |Accounting    |   |Licensing Information
2017-12-15 17:20:24.907491|INFO    |Accounting    |   |type              : Non-profit
2017-12-15 17:20:24.908925|INFO    |Accounting    |   |starting date     : Sat Dec  9 00:00:00 2017
2017-12-15 17:20:24.908998|INFO    |Accounting    |   |ending date       : Sat Jun 23 00:00:00 2018
2017-12-15 17:20:24.909044|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max virtualservers: 10
2017-12-15 17:20:24.909084|INFO    |Accounting    |   |max slots         : 512

[dante696]

Accounting 2.0 is still under test. The start and End date could differ from date when we are working on it.

I will send your feedback to our devs.

[dante696]

I talked with our developer about that.
What you both saw was a desired behavior while we did/do prepared our accounting server to work with old servers and licenses.

Numma: your license only did update to the new license type. The end date wasn't touched when the license type was updated. The start data was touched when your license was updated in our system.

Schlumpi: Some NPL licenses where touched/updated twice in our system so it could be that one of these is yours. (with updated i don't mean the end date.)