This glossary lists terms that are specific to License Activation Center (LAC).
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Contact | A customer's contact person. | ||||||
Customer | A company that orders licenses from a Vendor. | ||||||
End user | A machine defined by a set of HostIDs, for example a personal computer, server, virtual machine, or any other equipment running licensed software. | ||||||
Feature | Any functionality that needs to be licensed. The definition of feature is developer-dependent, according to the application and to the developer's requirements. For example, a feature can consist of:
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Floating license
| A license that can authorize usage of an application for users on a network. A license server is required to manage a floating license. With this type of license, the number of concurrent users is counted with the licensed application usable by only a specified number of users at any time. A variation of this scheme is a license that can be locked to work both with specific client computers and with a specified server computer. A floating license is sometimes referred to as a network license. | ||||||
| A unique machine value that can be used to lock a license file to a specific host. | ||||||
License | A text file produced using a license generator. A license file consists of blocks referred to as "features"shipped to an end user, which provides one or more features. Features contain information about specific modules in your program that are licensed. Each feature in a license has its own key, where all security information is encrypted. | ||||||
License Order
| A set of information about the order of a product created by a Vendor for the Customer. | ||||||
Node-locked license
| A license that can authorize use of an application running on a single specific machine, as opposed to being on a network. Node-locked licenses do not require a license server because they are uncounted. A node-locked license is sometimes referred to as local license. | ||||||
Vendor | The manufacturer of a software application using a particular license server. | ||||||
Customer | A company that orders licenses from a Vendor. | ||||||
Contact | A person responsible for contacting a Customer. | ||||||
Vendor name | The name of the vendor that is used in license files | End User | A machine defined by a set of HostIDs, for example a personal computer, server, virtual machine, or any other equipment running licensed software. |