# Licensing

RaceResultExchange is licensed onto your unique RACE RESULT customer ID and comes in form of a small license file that need to placed with your installation. 

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Our licenses are no subscriptions, therefore the user has to renew his license in time before expiration.
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You can access the state of your curent license by clicking on the licensing button in the top right corner

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The licensing window will show you some data from your local computer (unique machine ID, machine name and user name) as well as shows the status of your license file

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License files have `.licenses` as file extension and need to be placed in the applications installation directory, usually `c:\%PROGRAMFILES%\dbnetsoft\RaceResultsExchange` - you can click the open folder button in the window to open this directory.&#x20;