Using Token-Based Licenses to Increase Licensing Flexibility Once you have mastered the basic license models that all license managers provide, it might be time to take a look at some of the more advanced models. Token-Based Licenses provide advanced license options that aren’t available any other way. In prior lives, we invented “Package” licenses, but …
The Floating License
The Floating License – The most common license model Last time we discussed the nodelocked and nodelocked counted licenses, which are license grants that allows your software to be used on a particular computer, and on that computer only. A far more common license is the floating license. The floating license is what made license managers famous, and it is supported by all …
Software Trials without the Internet
Creating Software Trials without the Internet Most software vendors offer trial copies of their software to potential customers for short-term evaluations. The trial may run in full or reduced-functionality mode, but only for a short time, 30 days or so. Sometimes, they want to create software trials without the Internet being available. Ideally, the evaluation/trial starts when …
Licensing vs. Activation
Licensing vs. Activation When software companies investigate licensing solutions, they sometimes get confused by terms such as “licensing” and “activation.” To be clear, “licensing” and “activation” have very specific meanings, although they are sometime used interchangeably. The two concepts are very different. Let’s define “licensing” first. Licensing = Authorization Licensing is the process of checking whether a software application or …
How many licenses can a license server serve?
So, How many licenses can a license server serve, you ask? This question “how many licenses can a license server serve” has come up since the beginning of time (or at least since 1988). The answer is, of course, “it depends”. What does it depend on? Well, for license managers like RLM or FLEXlm (FLEXnet …
Supporting Resellers with Activation Pro
Supporting resellers with Activation Pro can be accomplished quite easily. Let me share with you how to set up Activation Pro so that you can sell directly to end users, while also supporting a reseller channel. With RLM Activation Pro you create activation keys for orders from your customers. When you create a key, you can assign …
NodeLocked Counted License
Another simple license model – the NodeLocked Counted License. Last time we discussed the nodelocked license, which is a license grant that allows your software to be used on a particular computer, and on that computer only. The typical nodelocked license is uncounted, meaning that if the software is running on the specified computer, any number of concurrent copies …
NodeLocked License
License Models: the node-locked license. How to implement these.
Your Public-Private Key Pair
This blog post discusses issues involved with managing your public-private key pair in RLM.
Maintenance-Thru-Date Licenses
Creating Maintenance-Thru-Date Licenses Many software publishers wish to issue a license to their customers which allows the customer to run (forever) any version of the software which is released before a particular date. We call this a “maintenance-thru-date” license. A typical example is that the customer is allowed to run any software released up to 12 months after …