Getting To Know EasyLicenser


Preface

What Is EasyLicenser

Business Benefit

Product Features

Supported License Models And Parameters

Information Management

Database Management

Productivity, Convenience

Application Security

Flexibility, Customizability (Professional Edition Only)

How EasyLicenser Product Licensing Works

Prerequisites, Supported Environments, System Limits

Java

Hardware

C/C++ (Run Time Only)

Visual Basic 6 (Run Time Only)

Limits

Next Steps


Preface

The purpose of this document is to enable you to fully benefit from EasyLicenser by acquainting you with its benefits, features and supported environments.

What Is EasyLicenser

EasyLicenser is a software license management product that enables Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) to effortlessly license-protect virtually any Java, C, C++ or Visual Basic 6 based product based on virtually any licensing policy using software license keys.

EasyLicenser consists of:

EasyLicenser is available in two flavors: a base edition referred to as EasyLicenser, and a high end EasyLicenser Pro professional edition.  The base edition is appropriate if your requirement is limited to simple single-seat end-user licensing of products that are targeted at end-consumers or individual developers.  The professional edition provides economies of scale for ISV’s that have high-value server-based products and sell their products into organizations, and includes capabilities suitable for meeting complex licensing requirements.

An eCommerce option is available with either edition.  This enables you to automate license key generation and email transmission at a JSP-based eCommerce-enabled web site.

Business Benefit

The key business benefit to you of using EasyLicenser is increased revenues from your product sales due to:

Product Features

A single EasyLicenser product distribution provides all features.  The features are enabled according to the EasyLicenser product license that you initially or subsequently purchase from the EasyLicenser web site.

Supported License Models And Parameters

Standard Edition

Single-user License Model:

License parameters:

Professional Edition

All Standard Edition models and parameters, plus:

Server License Model:

License Parameters:

Information Management

Database Management

Productivity, Convenience

Application Security

Flexibility, Customizability (Professional Edition Only)

How EasyLicenser Product Licensing Works

After you initially download EasyLicenser, and when you run it the first time, you enter the EasyLicenser key that you purchase from our web site.  The key defines an initial quota of License Units that you paid for.  A License Unit represents a unit of license key generation by you.  Whenever you generate a key to license protect a copy of your product, your quota is decremented by a number of License Units that depends on the type of key you generate and its parameters.  For example, when you generate a concurrent-user server license, the license units consumed from your EasyLicenser license will increase with the concurrent-user limit that you specify for your license key.  The specific relationship between license units and the parameters for the keys that you generate is encoded in your EasyLicenser key and is also available at our web site at http://www.easylicenser.com.

License units that are consumed cannot be reclaimed.  However, EasyLicenser allows you to reclaim license units that are consumed for generating time limited evaluation keys.  This allows you to use a pool of license units for repeatedly generating time limited evaluation keys.

When you need to replenish your quota, you can purchase an additional EasyLicenser key from the EasyLicenser web site and add it to your existing quota.

Prerequisites, Supported Environments, System Limits

Java

Product Installation: JDK 1.3.1+.

Run Time Library: JDK 1.3.1+.

Operating Systems

Any Windows, Macintosh, Linux or Unix platform that supports JDK 1.3.1 and above.

Hardware

Product Installation And Java Run Time:

Any hardware supported by JDK 1.3.1 and above.

Product Installation Only:

Minimum 600 MHZ CPU, 256MB RAM.  20MB Hard Disk space.  The CPU speed, amount of memory and disk space will affect the number of keys you can keep active in your license key database as well as the number of keys you can import or export at a time.

Display resolution is a minimum of 1024x768. The recommended display resolution is 1280x1024.

C/C++ (Run Time Only)

Windows: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

Linux: Linux-Intel distributions based on kernel 2.4 and above.

Solaris: Solaris-SPARC 7 and above, 32- and 64-bit mode

HPUX: HPUX 11.0 and above running on HPPA1.1+, 32- and 64-bit mode

Visual Basic 6 (Run Time Only)

Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

Limits

License Key Repository: Active Keys

Between 10,000 and 50,000 depending on CPU, memory and disk space availability.  No limit on total combination of exported and active keys.  No limit on number of active keys maintained in external database using eCommerce option.

Export File Size

Between 10,000 and 50,000 depending on CPU, memory and disk space availability for a single export file.  No limit on the number of export files.

Key Size

800 characters.

Custom Key Size

400 characters.

Custom Cookie Size

400 characters.

Next Steps

Visit the Setup, Management And Deployment Guide for instructions on setting up and configuring EasyLicenser.  To obtain an understanding on how EasyLicenser works and how to use it, view the Concepts documentation.