new licence for questa starter edition has already expired?

Its pointing to our license server which has installed within it a copy of the license and was commanded to reread the file after adding the new license.

The diagnostic output you see in my first message is obtained by running "lmutil lmdiag" on our license server and pointing it to explicitly examine our Altera license file, and you can see the attached down-selected output corresponds to the license I added at the end of this file today. The questa itself provides no diagnostic information when it does not obtain a license.

By the way, I don't fully understand "Feature has expired", shouldn't it instead say "Feature's license has expired?" The Intel license site does not ask for an explicit version of free questa when generating the license?