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Abstract:

All RLM licenses are protected by a license signature. This means that while end users can view the licenses issued to them by their software provider (ISV), they aren’t able to change the license without invalidating the signature.
 

License fields:

We maintain a full list of the fields an ISV can include in a license file here. Unless specified, all parameters are included in the license signature.
 

Fields not included in the license signature
(user editable fields):

  • License ID
    _id=
    IDs are used to identify specific license lines, and often used along with the ISV Options File.
  • Line Item
    _line_item=
    Allows a license administrator to enter contract information about a purchased license(s), to the license file.
  • Password
    _password=
    Allows a license administrator to create/require users to enter a password before they can use/consume a license.

RLM and RLM
Activation Pro

What’s the difference?

Reprise License Manager (RLM)

Software License Manager

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

As a Software publisher, you integrate RLM into your product, and RLM keeps track at runtime of who is using the licenses of your software.

RLM can do this entirely within the client library (linked into your application), or, more commonly, your application makes a request of the RLM Lincese Server to check out a license.

The lincese server runs either on your customers network, or in the cloud if you are using our RLMCloud™ service.

RLM provides runtime checking that verifies that your application is licensed to run and that the current usage of your application is within the limits you have ser every time your application runs.

RLM Activation Pro

Software Activation Manager

Activation Pro is
used once when your customer purchases your software in order to retrieve the license which is specific to that customer.

Software Activation’s purpose in life is to get the licenses for your product to your customers with a minimum of fuss.

Activation Pro also has a server component wich we call the activation server.

Your application contacts the activation server and supplies a short text activation key, and in exchange, the activation server returns the license which enables your product.

Generally, this is done once, right after your customer purchases your software, not every time your software is invoked.