Questions tagged [licensing]
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Why did Wolfram Research change their release policy?
As a long term user of Mathematica I cannot fail to notice that Wolfram Research seems to have changed their release policy considerably:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica#Version_history
For the most part of Mathematica's history you had…
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What happens to my student version when I drop out of university?
I will soon drop out of university. However, I will try to keep me busy with some research topics. For that I'll need a mathematica licence running on a single machine. I can currently buy a mathematica student version. I'm not quite sure what will…
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What is the difference between the Mathematica Licences/Subscriptions
On the Mathematica Store, there are plenty of different licences:
Can somebody maybe tell me:
What is the difference for between the three Mathematica | Desktop licences? In the comparison by Wolfram themselves, I can find the following…
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Licensing limitations for things produced using Mathematica?
Mathematica is a proprietary software produced by Wolfram Research. Does its status as a proprietary software affect how I can distribute, commercialize, or license the things I have produced using Mathematica?
Hypothetical examples of the…
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Why don't some functions work in trial versions of Mathematica?
I currently use the trial version before I decide to upgrade. However, a number of expressions don't work, i.e. it results in some errors that I don't know how to interpret. For example, if I use the simple GeoGraphics[] expression from the help…
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How can I know if license of new version is added to the server
When a new Mathematica version is released (e.g 10.1,10.2,...) the server in my organization does not immediately update the license to the new version.
Previously, I had to contact the admin from time to time to check if they add the new version to…
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Cost of upgrading Mathematica student version to professional version?
The Wolfram site mentions that the student version of Mathematica can be upgraded to a professional version at a significant discount. However, they do not mention any prices on the web page and suggest to ask them directly via email. Being a…
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Is there a mechanism to know whether the user is actually using Mathematica or has just left it running idle?
The monitorLM below shows the user logged in as sagar has been running the Mathematica for 13days. I don't understand whether Mathematica is actually in use by this user or else whether he launched Mathematica and then left it idling, but this is…
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License issue when USB-LAN stick is connected.
I have mathematica installed on my laptop which only have a wifi card. When I connect a USB-LAN adapter, even if it is not connected to the LAN socket, mathematica complains that the license is invalid. Is there a way to configure mathematica to…
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Unexpired Activation Key for 10.3.1 suddenly stops working
Today my unexpired Activation Key for Mathematica 10.3.1 suddenly stopped working When I opened Mathematica, I got a "Wolfram Product Activation" pop-up asking for the key. When I typed it in, I was told it was for 10.3, not 10.3.1.
I cannot access…
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Activation required on each restart
Mathematica has suddenly begun to ask for the registration key on each restart. I was able to generate a new key already 3 or 4 times, but needed to go through customer service for the latter instances.
The last time it happened, I had completely…
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Prefer personal license over network license
I have activated Mathematica with a personal license and a network license. The idea for this is that I want to be able to use as many kernels as possible from my machine if I need them.
My goal is that if I launch Mathematica it should use the…
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MathKernel launches only from /usr/local/Wolfram/MathLM
If go in the folder /usr/local/Wolfram/MathLM I can launch MathKernel no problem.
If I go anywhere else it complains it has not license.
In the folder /usr/local/Wolfram/MathLM there is also the mathpass file, so this makes me confident that its…
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How to automatically read the mathpass license file in a selected time interval
I use Mathematica both at home and at work. For this, I have a Home User License, and I adapted the mathpass file, by adding my work's license server on a line before my home license in that file. So whenever Mathematica starts, it will use the…
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How to check the process limit on the license of mathematica?
My current calculation need to launch multiple mma kernels in our institute's cluster. However, if I launch too much tasks, there will be an error massage as following
"The $-process limit on the license you are trying to run has been reached.…
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