add license-checker

vaadin · Sep 26, 2024 · c63a34e · c63a34e
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diff --git a/articles/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users.adoc b/articles/flow/configuration/licenses/daily-active-users.adoc
@@ -96,6 +96,40 @@ It can be set in the following ways:
 
 If Vaadin does not find the subscription key in any of the sources above, it fails fast the application’s startup with the corresponding message.
 
+Vaadin License Checker is mandatory at runtime in production for Vaadin subscriptions using DAU.
+It may be available in your project as a transitive dependency from Vaadin commercial products used by it, but we recommend to add the License Checker explicitly into production build profile:
+
+[.example]
+--
+[source,xml]
+----
+<source-info group="Maven"></source-info>
+<profile>
+    <!-- Production mode is activated using -Pproduction -->
+    <id>production</id>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
+            <artifactId>license-checker</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+    <!-- ... -->
+</profile>
+----
+[source,groovy]
+----
+<source-info group="Gradle"></source-info>
+dependencies {
+    // other dependencies
+
+    def productionMode = project.findProperty('vaadin.productionMode')?.toBoolean()
+    if (productionMode) {
+        implementation 'com.vaadin:license-checker'
+    }
+}
+----
+--
+
 If you use subscription plan with DAU license model and want to build your application for production by not using the server license key (e.g. if you want to build from a local machine with internet access), you *must* set the subscription key, for example:
 
 [source,terminal]