Microsoft uses this terminology for Office, where you have an option of purchasing it either as a subscription model where you can only use it as long as you continue paying for it, but you get upgrades as they become available (that's Office 365), OR you can buy a perpetual license for a specific version, such as Office 2019, in which case you pay upfront once and can use it forever - or at least for as long as you run a hardware and OS environment where it functions. But if you purchase a perpetual license for Reflect V8, then you will be entitled to use that license for Reflect V8 for as long as you wish. It doesn't mean you get free upgrades to NEWER versions though, and it doesn't necessarily even mean that the version you have will remain compatible with future hardware or Windows versions you might try to use it with. A perpetual software license means that the version of the software you purchased, such as Reflect 8 Home, will remain yours to use forever, without any later payments required to continue using it. This terminology is not unique to Macrium. Support expires after one year, and major upgrades are not free. As far as I can tell, nothing in the licensing of Reflect is anywhere close to lifetime. In my mind (and the dictionary's definition), perpetual means forever.

I'm a bit confused over Macrium's use of the word 'perpetual license'.

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