Licensing | Rasa Documentation

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Rasa will look for your license in the env var RASA_LICENSE, which must contain the content of the license key file provided by rasa.

You can set the RASA_LICENSE env var temporarily in your terminal, but it is recommended to set it persistently so that you don't have to set it every time you run Rasa.

• Bash
• Windows Powershell

## Temporary
dexport RASA_LICENSE=YOUR_LICENSE_STRING_HERE

## Persistent
echo "export RASA_LICENSE=YOUR_LICENSE_STRING_HERE" >> ~/.bashrc
## If you're using a different flavor of bash e.g. Zsh, replace .bashrc with your shell's initialization script e.g. ~/.zshrc

## Temporary
$env: RASA_LICENSE=YOUR_LICENSE_STRING_HERE

## Persistent for the current user
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('RASA_LICENSE','YOUR_LICENSE_STRING_HERE','USER')

Then you can use the rasa CLI as usual, for example:

rasa init