Installation

Licenz provides a client library for embedding in your application and a CLI tool for management tasks.

Client Library (Rust)

Add the Licenz client library to your Rust project:

# Using cargo
cargo add licenz

# Or add to Cargo.toml manually
[dependencies]
licenz = "0.1"

Feature Flags

Feature	Description	Status
`hardware`	Hardware fingerprinting support	On by default
`offline`	Offline validation (no network calls)	On by default
`ed25519`	Ed25519 signature algorithm	On by default
`rsa`	RSA-SHA256 signature algorithm	On by default

To use specific features:

[dependencies]
licenz = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["offline", "ed25519"] }

CLI Tool

Install the Licenz CLI for license management and sneakernet workflows.

From Cargo (Recommended)

cargo install licenz-cli

From Binary Release

Download pre-built binaries from our GitHub releases:

# Linux (x86_64)
curl -L https://github.com/licenz/releases/latest/download/licenz-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv licenz /usr/local/bin/

# macOS (Apple Silicon)
curl -L https://github.com/licenz/releases/latest/download/licenz-darwin-arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv licenz /usr/local/bin/

# Windows (PowerShell)
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/licenz/releases/latest/download/licenz-windows-x86_64.zip -OutFile licenz.zip
Expand-Archive licenz.zip -DestinationPath C:\Program Files\Licenz

Verify Installation

licenz --version
# licenz 0.1.0

Configuration

Configure the CLI with your API credentials:

# Interactive setup
licenz config init

# Or set environment variables
export LICENZ_API_KEY="your-api-key"
export LICENZ_ORG_ID="your-org-id"

System Requirements

Component	Requirement
Client Library	Rust 1.70+, ~2MB binary size
CLI Tool	Any x86_64/arm64 system
Operating Systems	Linux, macOS, Windows
Dependencies	None (statically linked)