Merging the license files with a command line tool

License files can be merged with the license command line script.

Usage:

    license -m source_license_file1.cxl               source_license_file2.cxl               result_license_file.cxl

Online merging of the license files

Online license merging is available at: http://www.chemaxon.com/my-chemaxon/license-merger/

1. Use the Browse buttons to locate two license files to be merged (referred as source files).

2. Specify the name of the output file. It is recommended to keep it license.cxl, because it is the default name of the automatically recognized license file.

3. Press the Merge button.

4. A dialog appears with which you can specify a location for the result (referred as output file).

Manual merging of the license files

Warning: Manual merging of the license files can destroy them, be cautious with this method, and always create a backup first.

The reason of this warning is due to potential encoding problems some text editors may cause. The license files are distibuted in UTF-8 encoding, and this is specified in the license file itself. Some of the text editors are unable to save the license file with UTF-8 encoding, but they use a different encoding, e.g. UTF-16, however they do not change the UTF-8 specification in the license file.

For manual merging, Notepad, or other UTF-8 compliant text editor is suggested.
Encoding problems were experienced with WordPad.

Manual editing the license files is otherwise straightforward if you are familiar with XML files.

Structure of a license file:

Copy whole <License> blocks from one license file, and paste them in another license file, inside the <ChemAxon> block.