## Licensing Fuse

## Overview

You can download Fuse for free and take it for a test drive. However, some of the advanced features are unavailable without a FuseSource subscription.

Features that require a subscription include:

- running a route as a local Apache Camel context

- deploying routes into containers that support hot deployment

- deploying Apache ServiceMix, Fuse ESB Enterprise, and Apache Karaf servers into Fuse

- visualizing a deployed integration application using JMX

- JMS destination browsing

- tracing messages as they pass through routes

- creating and working with fabrics

| Tip
To obtain a trial license, fill out the online registration form at Join the FuseSource Community

## Downloading the license

In most cases, Fuse can download and install your license in a single step.

However, if your firewall or proxy settings prevent Eclipse from connecting to the FuseSource Web site to download the license, you can download the license using a Web browser and install it manually.

## From within Fuse

To register your version of Fuse:

1. Open the Preferences dialog

   - MacOS—On the menu bar, select Fuse > Preferences.

   - *NIX and Windows—On the menu bar, select Windows > Preferences.

2. In the Preferences dialog's directory tree, select Fuse > Subscription.

3. In the Subscription preference panel:

   - Enter the name associated with your FuseSource subscription in the Name field.

   - Enter the password associated with your FuseSource subscription in the Password field.

4. Click Download Subscription License to add the license to Fuse.

If your license successfully downloads, the expiration date appears in the Expiration Date field.

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This procedure also installs your license file, so you need not click Install License File.

## Manual registration

To manually register and download your Fuse license:

1. On the menu bar, select Help > FuseSource Subscription Center to open the Login to FuseSource web page in your Fuse IDE environment.

2. Scroll down to the Subscriber section, and fill out the form, making sure you enter all required information.

3. Read and accept the Terms and Conditions.

   FuseSource sends a confirmation email with account activation instructions to the email address you entered on the registration form.

4. In your email account, open the confirmation email, and click the provided link to activate your account.

5. On the menu bar, select Fuse > Preferences.

6. In the Preferences editor's directory tree, select Fuse > Subscription.

7. On the Subscription page, click Install License File.

8. In the Open File dialog, find and select the `license.key` file you just installed.

9. Click Open.

A dialog box confirms that the license installed successfully, and the expiration date of your license appears in the Expiration Date field in the Subscription page