4. License Management

There’s a distinction between a license file (or string) and a license. When you buy an RTI product, such as RTI Connext Professional, you are licensed to use it.

Within a package, some components may have to be activated using a license file or string, while others may not. For example, when you install the Security Plugins package, the Security Plugins libraries (which you are licensed to use) do not require a license file or string.

Some components that do not require a license file in certain packages may require a license file in other packages. For example, the Security Plugins libraries require a license file in the free (“lm”) packages. If a component in your Connext distribution requires a license file, you will receive one from RTI.

Note

All use of commercial and free versions is subject to RTI’s Software License Agreement. You can find RTI’s Software License Agreement in your installation directory.

This section describes how to manage a license file. If you have more than one license file from RTI, you can concatenate them into one file. A single license file can be used to run on any architecture and is not node-locked. You are not required to run a license server.

• 4.1. Installing the License File
• 4.2. Adding or Removing License Management