Licensing across multiple Linux hosts

[tboydsto]

Greetings,

I am licensed for Sublime Text 3. I have found that the license key is only good on one Linux host in the case where the user’s home is mounted to all hosts via NFS. Example. If I enter the license key into Sublime Text on host A, then it becomes registered and works fine my host A; however, if I ssh to host B elsewhere on the network, then Sublime Text goes into unregistered mode. Entering the license key in Sublime Text on host B resolves the unregistered issue; however, if I return to host A and launch Sublime Text, then it runs in unregistered mode. Note that my home directory is mounted on a NFS, which means license information in ~/.config/sublime-text-3 is available to all hosts. I conclude from Sublime Text’s behavior that Sublime Text is somehow tying the license to the host. According to the FAQ, Sublime text is licensed to a user, hence should not be going into unregistered mode when changing hosts. Could Sublime Text’s licensing system be corrected to share license settings in ~/.config/sublime-text-3 across multiple hosts on a network? This should be a common situation in commercial environments.

Thanks!

[kingkeith]

License installation (Silently)

If you save the license key as plain text to %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 3\Local\License.sublime_license, then Sublime Text will start up already licensed. If you're using Sublime Text 2, the path is %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2\Settings\License.sublime_license

Use in Lab with NFS and LDAP?

Yes, your license is merged with some of your system hardware info to reduce the risk of accidentally leaking your license file. You can circumvent that by storing your license directly in the license file's location instead of entering it from within Sublime Text. Regarding your second question you should probably mail sales@... as @Jackeroo proposed.

TL;DR, if you want to use one location to store your ST data, including your license, across machines, then don’t enter your license key into ST - as doing so will save it in a machine/hardware specific way. Just create the license file manually instead.

[tboydsto]

Thank you. Putting the license into ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Local/License.sublime_license resolved the issue.