What licensing options do you offer

What licensing options do you offer for your software?

We offer license types for students, academic faculty, and commercial users, for single workstations or for a network. The table below shows the available licenses.

Every license is either an activatable license or a certificate. Here's what those terms mean:

An activatable license, also known as a trusted storage license, is a string of letters and digits called an Activation ID. Before use, it must be activated against our server before use. See Activating Palisade 6.x Standalone Software or for network licenses see the Guide for Administrators.

Activation can be automatic or manual. Automatic Activation needs direct communication between your server or computer and our license server. If that fails because of your firewall, Manual Activation is available: the software creates a digitally signed XML request file, you email the file to us or upload it to our Web page, you get a response file the same way, and you load the response file in the software.

Before you wipe a hard drive or decommission a computer or server where a license is activated, you must deactivate the license. You must also deactivate the license as part of transferring it. Deactivation can also be automatic or manual. See Transferring Standalone Software 6.x to a New Computer, Moving 6.x Concurrent Network to a New Server, or Moving 6.x Enterprise Network to a New Server.

A certificate license is a text file, digitally signed and locked to the MAC address of your license server or your end user's computer. Course licenses and textbook licenses are always certificates. Other types of licenses, which are usually activatable, can be changed to certificates in special circumstances. The most common of these is an ultra-secure environment where you are prohibited from exchanging the information necessary to complete a Manual Activation.

There is no deactivation process for a certificate license. Instead, you ask Palisade for a new license when you need to move it to a new computer or server. Therefore, certificate licenses are issued for no more than a year at a time.