RavenDb: settings.WithLicense(string) results in no license being registered.

[JohnGalt1717]

Describe the bug

        var license = File.ReadAllText(licensePath);

        settings.WithLicense(license, eulaAccepted: true);
        var ravenServer = builder
            .AddRavenDB(name, settings)

I have verified that license is a valid license file and is valid json.

As a result of this code, the instance still has no license registered on startup.

Regression

No response

Steps to reproduce

Create settings
Use settings.WithLicense(string, true) passing in a valid license.
Call AddRavenDb(name, settings)

Expected behavior

The license should be registered.

Screenshots

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IDE and version

VS Code

IDE version

1.106

Nuget packages

CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.RavenDB

Additional context

I'd help with this, but I have never been able to figure out what the docker container is doing for licenses. I can't figure out where it looks for the license.json by default, I've never been able to, based on the documentation inject one as a file, nor pass it as an environment variable.

Help us help you

No, just wanted to report this

[aviv86]

I tried to reproduce this with code like:

var license = File.ReadAllText(licensePath);
serverSettings.WithLicense(license);
builder.AddRavenDB("ravendb", serverSettings);

When I first start the server and open Studio, the About page still shows “No license – AGPLv3 Restrictions Applied”, so this matches what you’re seeing.

However, after I create a database (or access an existing one), the server loads the license from the environment variable and it is then registered and shown correctly in the About view. This behavior matches the RavenDB docs, which state that the license is fetched from the environment only after the server actually accesses a database:

https://docs.ravendb.net/6.0/start/licensing/license-under-docker#setting-a--environment-variable

Could you please try creating or opening a database on your server and then re-check the About page?
If the license still doesn’t appear after that, let me know and we’ll dig deeper.

[JohnGalt1717]

I deleted my test instance of ravendb and all volumes.
Then did this:

        var license = File.ReadAllText(licensePath);
        settings.WithLicense(license, eulaAccepted: true);

Note the eulaAccepted: true

This results in no license being loaded for me with 13.0 despite the license string being the json as text.

Does that help?

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[aviv86]

Can you confirm you tried creating/opening a database after startup, and then refreshing Studio → About → License?
In my repro the server doesn’t actually register the license until it handles a DB-level request, so Studio shows “No license” until a DB is accessed.

If you did create/open a DB and it still stays unlicensed, please paste:

• RavenDB container startup logs
• the RavenDB image tag + the Aspire.Hosting.RavenDB package version