Ok i know a whole lot of not much about HP Tuners But was reading this and wondering what license they in fact are referring to ...

When reading a vehicle, the rules are:

* You must have a license for the vehicle you are reading. If you do not have a license, you will be prompted to activate one.


When writing to a vehicle, the rules are:

* You must have a license for the file you are trying to write to the vehicle.
* If you are writing a file that has a VCM Enhancement applied, you must also have a license for the VCM Enhancement you are writing to the vehicle.
* You must also have a license for the vehicle you are trying to write to.

The above rules may sound like a lot just to write a vehicle, however its really not the case.

For example:
When working with your own vehicle, you will almost always read the vehicle first.
On the read, you will be prompted to license the vehicle.
Now you have a license for your vehicle and all files you read from it.

Now that your vehicle is licensed, if you try to write the file back to the vehicle,
you will already have the license for the vehicle as you licensed it when you read the vehicle,
and you will have a license for the file you are trying to write as you pulled it from the vehicle which you already licensed.

Now, if you apply a VCM Enhancement to the file, you will only have to license the VCM Enhancement the next time you program the vehicle as you will already have a license for the base vehicle file and the vehicle itself.


Take caution when:

* If you download a file from the internet and try to write it into your vehicle,
when you try to write the vehicle you will be prompted to license the file first.
After you license the file, if you have not licensed your own vehicle yet, you will yet again be prompted to license your vehicle using additional credits.
* If you purchase a spare VCM for your vehicle and wish to write your file into it,
you will still need to license the spare VCM when you try to write it.
If the spare VCM is of the same year/model type as a year/model or vehicle group license which you already have, you will not be prompted to license the VCM as you will already have licensed support for that VCM.

The above examples are extreme tests of our licensing rules.

 

 

Most likely software licensing to show that you purchased the software instead of downloading it from somewhere.