Dear Mr Hutten,
I replied to your exact same message sent via our contact form about 15 minutes ago. Let me repeat myself for other people interested in this topic:
Our Promo version is a temporary special offer which may be changed to a similar one in the future. However, we will always take into account smaller businesses, and in present you can still buy more Promo licenses in a row here: www.capturingreality.com/Product#Buy. One of our virtual resellers also offers this type of license with automatic subscription: http://store.steampowered.com/app/489180/
Not being able to process laser scans applies just to the PGM license. You can process laser scans with all other RC licenses.
Each RealityCapture Promo license can be used just for 3 months and it is just a temporary special offer, which may be changed in the future. RealityCapture PGM is a perpetual (permanent/full/lifetime) license. The Promo requires active internet connection during export, which is not true for the PGM. The Promo comes with no technical support regarding the software, whereas the PGM does include this one-to-one priority technical support free of charge. Both versions are limited to 2,500 inputs per project, and both include free updates of the software product. The PGM version does not allow laser-scan processing, but is possible with the Promo.
RealityCapture Steam license is a subscription-based floating version, which needs permanent online connection.
RealityCapture CLI is actually our most powerful software solution because it enables also automatic batch processing based on a computer script and it has no restrictions to the number and type of inputs. It is the only fully-featured application with the command-line interface. It further comes with priority 1:1 technical support and extra resources. You can try the CLI also in the Demo version for free. You can buy it for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months depending on the length of your project. The standard RealityCapture CLI is a 1-year license. RealityCapture (app / perpetual / lifetime) is a permanent license. Both of them include a year of free updates and priority technical support: https://www.capturingreality.com/terms#Support With the permanent version you can opt for another year (or more years) of free updates and priority technical support for 25% of the license price (for a year).