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Hello Karsten,

I think the location for license.txt in the freesurfer 6 release needs to be under $FREESURFER_HOME, ie., $FREESURFER_HOME/license.txt, and cannot be relocated from there by an environment variable. But you can try using a soft link to point to it in another location.

While it does not work to preserve $HOME/license.txt as a reference in another environment variable like FREESURFER_HOME or within a soft link, I believe the shorthand notation ~/license.txt does work in a soft link. So in your common installation under $FREESURFER_HOME you could try,

$ cd $FREESURFER_HOME

$ ln -s ~/license.txt license.txt

- and see if freesurfer complains if an individual users $HOME/license.txt (or ~/license.txt) is missing.

In the newer code base on the freesurfer development branch, it should work to set the FS_LICENSE environment variable to point to the path of the license.txt file, but I don’t think that works in the 6.0.0 release.

Ideally, I think the freesurfer group would prefer if each user signed up for their own license in order to track usage, so maybe try the soft link.

- R.

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