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Hi Jacob,

Can you provide more details on how FreeSurfer was installed, how you are using the license key and the errors you are receiving?

I just created a docker container with FreeSurfer v5.3.0-HCP (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/pub/dist/freesurfer/5.3.0-HCP/freesurfer-Linux-centos6_x86_64-stable-pub-v5.3.0-HCP.tar.gz) and tried my license file and things work fine.

The container is at pwighton/freesurfer:5.3.0-HCP if you would like to try it yourself.

You can run `docker run -it --rm pwighton/freesurfer:5.3.0-HCP` to get an interactive shell inside this container.

Once inside the container, running this test command:
```
mri_convert /opt/freesurfer-5.3.0-HCP/subjects/sample-001.mgz /tmp/sample-001.nii.gz
```

Does indeed give me a license error
```
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: FreeSurfer license file /opt/freesurfer-5.3.0-HCP/license.txt not found.
  If you are outside the NMR-Martinos Center,
  go to MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu to
  get a valid license file (it's free).
  If you are inside the NMR-Martinos Center,
  make sure to source the standard environment.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
```

However after copying my license file to `$FREESURFER_HOME/license.txt` the same command works fine.

-Paul

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 3:42 AM Jacob Breiting Sönnichsen <jbs@brainreader.net> wrote:

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Hi all,

 

Are there really no one out there, who knows, how we can get a FreeSurfer 5.1 and 5.3 running?

How do we obtain/create a license for these versions?

 

Kind regards / Cordialement / Med venlig hilsen 

Jacob

 

From: Jacob Breiting Sönnichsen
Sent: Friday, 15 April 2022 10.03
To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: License for 5.X versions of FreeSurfer

 

How do I obtain a license to run old versions of FreeSurfer?

I need to replicate some research done with an old 5.1 and 5.3 version of FreeSurfer and using a current license does not seem to work?

Is it possible to convert the new license to the old license somehow?

 

Kind regards

Jacob

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