Can I select which license to use in Matlab?

Question

My school provides me with 2 licenses for Matlab - one for teaching+education, and one for research.

If I wanted to do things "all right", I should use a different license for different things I do. However, moving/overwriting the license.lic file is not a suitably simple solution for me.

Is there a way to change the license Matlab uses (whithout removing the other)?

Check this out: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_env/commonly-used-startup-options.html. You want the "-c licensefile" startup option — Benoit_11, Jan 05 '15 at 15:11
Great, @Benoit_11, exactly what I was looking for! You should convert your comment to an answer ;) — Martin Pecka, Jan 05 '15 at 15:34
This question appears to be off-topic because it is about [licensing/legal advice](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/274963/1699210) — bummi, Jan 09 '15 at 08:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '15 at 15:40

Yes you can!

When starting MATLAB from the terminal, you can specify startup options such as nosplash, nodisplay, etc and fortunately the license file you want to use.

For example (on Windows), using this

matlab.exe -c licensefile

will perform what you want. Note that -c licensefile is a valid syntax for all platforms.

More info here and here

Can I select which license to use in Matlab?

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