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# Transferring a License

If you want to transfer a license from one container to another (for example, from a dongle to a software-based container, between different computers and so on), the steps are as follows:

1. create a license update request file from the container you would like to move the license from. Please refer to the [updating a license](/licensing/adding-or-updating-a-license.md) chapter on how to achieve this.
2. We generate a license update file which destroys this license.
3. You send us a receipt file so that we can confirm the license was destroyed.
4. Then, you send us a license update request file from a container you would like to move the license to.
5. We generate a license update file and send it to you so that you can create a license.

As this is a manual process, we charge a small fee for it.