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Requirements

Whether you have purchased one of our products/plugins or whether you just want to evaluate them, you need a license. To get a license, you need to know your computer’s Host ID. Host ID is an unique identifier for a particular computer, and is used by Mestrelab to lock licenses to a particular machine.

 

 

First, you need to download Mnova in case you haven’t done it yet. Then simply copy it from this screen that will pop up when you open Mnova (Use the ‘Copy HOST ID to clipboard‘ button).

Or go to Menu ‘File –> Help–> License Manager’ select and copy it. Alternatively, you can use the ‘Copy HOST ID to clipboard‘ button.

 

 

 

Alternatively, click on this button:

 

 

There is no problem as Mnova is a multiplatform software which works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Mnova is available for Windows, Mac OS and a number of Linux distributions, and multiple user licenses across multiple platforms are perfectly possible.

Even a single user license with 2 installations (e.g., desktop computer and laptop computer) on 2 different platforms is possible. Our efforts to develop a multiplatform software are precisely focused on the idea to allow research groups with multiple operating systems to share a common application and file format.

The price of the licensing is the same for all OS, and the licensing system is also multiplatform, therefore there is no reason why users could not have a multiple user license and deploy across several platforms. Just download the distribution you want to have and follow the licensing process.