The license files can easily be sent over e-mail. However, bear in mind that some email clients may change the content of received e-mails, which may affect the license. Additional new lines will not affect LM-X, but changes such as replacing special characters may affect the LM-X license and could change calculated checksums, thus invalidating the license.
The license files, when saved to disk, can be named anything that the operating system supports and do not need to have a .lic file extension. However, you should ensure that files are written as ASCII text files and are not encoded in any particular way, such as in Rich Text Format, Word or similar formats.
If the license file being shipped is to be a local license, we recommend that you set a predefined license path for where the application program should look for licenses, as shown in the following example.
On Windows systems:
LMX_SetOption(..., LMX_OPT_LICENSE_PATH, (LMX_OPTION) "licenses
application.lic");
On Unix systems:
LMX_SetOption(..., LMX_OPT_LICENSE_PATH, (LMX_OPTION)
"licenses/application.lic");
This example sets the preferred license path to the file application.lic in the licenses subdirectory of the current directory path.
If the license is for network use, you should instruct users on how to install the license server and get it up and running.