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Licensing for SlickEdit® 2008 |
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| NOTE To provide more consistent functionality on all supported platforms, the Activations licensing option has been removed from SlickEdit 2008 in the v13.0.1 release. If you have previously used Activation to authenticate your license you will need to download a license file, which is available on your registered products Web page. If you were using a license file for v13.0, that license file will still work with v13.0.1. We have made some changes to where the license files are stored, which may cause SlickEdit to think your product is not licensed. If the License Manager is displayed when you first run v13.0.1, you can use it to browse for the location of your existing license file. |
SlickEdit 2008 uses FLEXnet™ Publisher from Macrovision to manage licenses for both Named User and Concurrent User licenses. Named User licenses are stored on the local machine. Concurrent User licenses use a FLEXnet server to access a license.
Concurrent License users will find complete instructions for setting up a license server at www.slickedit.com/flexnet. This also contains information on how to configure an installation of SlickEdit to find the server.
When you run SlickEdit, if a license is not found, the SlickEdit License Manager wizard is run. This wizard is only for configuring Named User licenses. Please exit the wizard and contact your FLEXnet administrator for assistance in configuring your installation to correctly locate the FLEXnet server.
SlickEdit uses a license file to authenticate your license. A Full License file is not bound to a particular machine and may be used on as many machines as allowed by the End User License Agreement. A Trial License file is bound to a single machine.
In most cases, the location of the license file is managed by SlickEdit and depends on your platform. However, if you are setting up a portable installation of SlickEdit, to run on a USB drive for example, you should manually copy the license file to the win subdirectory of your SlickEdit installation on Windows or the bin subdirectory on all other platforms.
| NOTE SlickEdit 2008 v13.0 also allowed Activation to authenticate a license. Because the support for activations has been removed from the product, you will still need to download and install a license file even if you have previously activated this computer. |
When SlickEdit is run, it checks for a license. If one can't be found, the SlickEdit License Manager wizard is run. You can also manually run the SlickEdit License Manager by selecting Help > License Manager. The SlickEdit License Manager provides the following options:
• Request a Trial License - To try out SlickEdit, click the option to obtain a Trial License. This will take you to a Web page where you can register for a trial. A license key will be e-mailed to you. A trial can be converted to a Full License by entering a Full License key at any time in the SlickEdit License Manager, or by downloading a Full License file.
• Purchase a license - To buy a Full License, visit the SlickEdit Web site at www.slickedit.com/slickedit or select this option. That will take you directly to the product page for SlickEdit.
• Use a license server (concurrent licenses) - Use this to configure concurrent licenses using a FLEXnet server.
• Request license for a purchased product - If you have already purchased a license for SlickEdit, you can download a license file to this computer from the SlickEdit Web site.
• Install a license file - Copies a downloaded license file to the location SlickEdit uses to store the file.
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