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For over 15 years, hardware dongles have protected Chaos Group products Chaos products from unlicensed usage. In 2015, we introduced Online Licensing (OLS) as an alternative way to license Chaos Group productsChaos products. This cut out the need to ship hardware dongles and manually reprogram them with subsequent purchases.

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October 31, 2018: The price of dongles delivered by Chaos Group will Chaos will double.

February 31, 2019: The price of dongles delivered by Chaos Group will double again.

August 1, 2019: End of service for hardware dongles. All existing licenses on dongles will continue to work indefinitely. However, Chaos Group will Chaos will not make any changes to licenses (activate upgrades, extensions, etc.) or activate new licenses on dongles. All licensing operations beyond August 1, 2019 will be made only in OLS. 

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Why do I get "cannot obtain license" errors with dongle licenses

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When using dongles with License Chaos License Server version 5.0 or later, make sure that the following requirements are met:

  • The License Server is installed and running. See the Installing the License Server page for more details.
  • WIBUKEY drivers need to be installed on the machine, where the License Server is running.
  • The dongle needs to be plugged in the machine where the License Server is running.
  • The DONGLE option of the License Server needs to be enabled. See the Dongle usage page for more details.
  • The Chaos Group product Chaos product needs to have the correct license settings. See the Changing your License Settings page for more details.

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