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If your licensing needs are more sophisticated, LM-X includes many advanced features to handle your needs, as described in Feature descriptions. LM-X offers outstanding flexibility to adjust the license model to your business strategy in two main ways: a universal and wide selection of license file settings (tags), and a license file structure with independent sets of tags that define features. (See Protecting your application for details on license files.)
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Example source code for each of these basic license types are included in the examples directory and are described in Getting Started with LM-X License Manager.
The following tables show the most common feature settings for node locked and floating licenses, whether they are required or optional, and whether they are set by default.
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Setting | Required for node-locked | Required for floating | Usage | Set by default |
Yes | Yes | License key set by the license generator, which should not be modified. | Yes | |
Yes | Yes | Your assigned vendor ID, which should not be modified. | Yes | |
Yes | Yes | The major version number of the feature. | Yes (Defaults to 1) | |
Yes | Yes | The minor version number of the feature. | Yes (Defaults to 0) | |
No | No | Specifies the license expiration date. | No | |
No | No | Specifies the customer name to which the license has been issued. | Yes | |
No | No | Enables/disables the system clock check performed by client application and license server. | Yes | |
No | No | Locks the license to a specific machine. Note: This setting applies to both floating and node-locked licenses, because a license may be locked to both a server (using SERVER_HOSTID) and one or more clients. | No | |
No | No | Specifies the percentage of HostIDs that must match for successful HostID verification. | Yes (Defaults to 100%) |
Using or changing one more of the above settings can change a licensing model. For instance:
To use this licensing model: | Modify the license file settings to: |
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Feature-limited demo license | Contain only the features you want to license. |
Temporary license | Set END to the date on which you want the temporary license to end. |
Permanent license | Do not set END. |
Time-limited | Set END to a specific date. |
Annual subscription | Set END to the current date + one year. |
Copy protection license | Use CLIENT_HOSTID. |
Shared license | Use SHARED=USER|HOST|CUSTOM. |
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