Type of license file

What type of license file we have to submit during installation under institution licenses viz. .dat or .lic. And do we need to download license manager or not?

Answer 1

[Shounak Shastri]

It depends on what license your institution uses.

For example, our institution uses an academic license for total headcount which gives access to everyone affiliated to the institute. We are told to make a Mathworks accounts with our institute email address and login with those credentials during installation. The license is automatically applied to our copy of Matlab irrespective of the version.

In some institutes, you receive a mail with a license key or a file from the system admin. Its better to contact the systems admin in your institute and ask them the proper procedure. It would probably be the same as I have described above.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/116637-what-are-the-differences-between-the-license-lic-license-dat-network-lic-and-license_info-xml-lic

.dat files are .lic that have the server line added.

You do not need to download the license manager under the following conditions:

• you only use individual or network named user or trial licenses; or
• you have already obtained the Mathworks license daemon component somewhere and you already have your own flexlm installed with a new enough version.

There are a lot of different commercial software packages that use flexlm, and you do not need to run separate flexlm for each of them: you only need one flexlm that is at least as new as the newest version required over all of the packages (they all have backwards compatibility). You do, though, need individual vendor daemons for each vendor.