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title: "Which Licensing Path Applies"
product: "LumiScan Licensing"
component: "lumiscan-licensing"
version: "1.0.0"
display_version: "1.0.0"
latest_version: false
language: "en"
url: "https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-licensing/1.0.0/which-licensing-path.html"
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# Which Licensing Path Applies – LumiScan Licensing

Two things decide how your LumiScan software is licensed: where you bought it, and where it runs.

![Decision diagram: where the software was bought and where it runs determine the licensing path](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-licensing/1.0.0/_images/licensing-paths.svg)

| Bought from | Runs on | Where the licence is held | Role of the LumiScan Key |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HD Vision Systems | Windows 11 or Ubuntu 24.04 | On the LumiScan Key | Carries the licence. Engineering apps need a licence update every year. |
| ctrlX Store (Bosch Rexroth) | Windows 11 | In ctrlX WORKS | Required in addition. It protects the software against reverse engineering; it does not carry the licence. It is updated only when you add a new LumiScan product. |
| ctrlX Store (Bosch Rexroth) | ctrlX OS on a ctrlX CORE or an IPC (runtimes running natively on ctrlX OS) | In the License Manager of ctrlX OS | Not used. |

Continue with the page for your path:

- [Bought from HD Vision Systems](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-licensing/1.0.0/path-hdvs.html)
- [Bought in the ctrlX Store, running on Windows](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-licensing/1.0.0/path-ctrlx-windows.html)
- [Bought in the ctrlX Store, running on ctrlX OS](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-licensing/1.0.0/path-ctrlx-os.html)

> [!NOTE]
> If you use several LumiScan products, each one can follow a different path. For example, LumiScan Annotation Framework bought in the ctrlX Store is licensed in ctrlX WORKS on your Windows PC, while LumiScan AI Object Matching running on a ctrlX CORE has a ctrlX licence there.