Just as an additional thought: Maybe such logic could also be moved from Spring Boot to a place, where the license is checked in the platform? Then the same thing would also work for any camunda environment, if there is a license in the default location it just get picked up?

By default Spring Boot Starter will load license key from camunda-license.txt file from classpath (now documented here).

Additionally I implemented the requested behaviour in EE webappps. Now when frontend requires the license from the database and it is not found, it will check

${user.home}/.camunda/license.txt

and insert the license from this file into the database.

svetlana.dorokhova the docs don't mention the possibility to load it from the user home. It only talks about classpath.

It took me quite a while to figure out the format in which to store the license and Spring Boot crashes without any helpful error messages. It would be nice to have a hint in the docs that one has to keep the header and footer lines around the license key:

--------------- BEGIN CAMUNDA BPM LICENSE KEY ---------------
...
---------------  END CAMUNDA BPM LICENSE KEY  ---------------

Hi menge,

1. regarding the docs, the new possibility is mentioned here: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/latest/webapps/admin/system-management/#camunda-license-key . But you're right, I will also mention it in Spring Boot Starter docs.
2. regarding the license format, sorry, but I can't agree. License without header and footer must work and is working fine for me. Could you may be try once again?

Hi Svetlana,

you were right: I tried it without headers again and it worked. I must have messed something up the first time.

Cheers,
Falko