The License File

The Foldda licensing scheme and the use of the license file offers a great way of managing licensing across multiple computers for different Foldda products, easily and cost-effectively.

The License Components

A Foldda license is issued to valid customers as a license file, which contains the following three components: 

Licensed Product: the premium software module to be licensed for being able to run in Full-mode. It includes the product’s name.

Subscription: the duration you want to use the licensed product. It includes a start date and an end date.

Registered Computers’ Identifier: each computer to run the licensed software product needs to be registered. A unique identifier is automatically generated for registering the computer based on the computer’s hardware profile.

Here is an example of a license file  –

As shown in the picture above, the license file also contains invoice and customer contact information, and a digital signature used for ensuring the license is genuinely issued from an authoritative source and it’s not tampered.

Using The License File

To deploy an issued license, simply place the “Foldda.lic” file next to the Foldda Integrator executable. When Foldda Integrator starts, it checks the license file for a matching CUID against the computer it’s currently running on. If the matching CUID is found, and the license has a valid and current subscription, any products that are eligible to this computer automatically run in Full-mode. There is no product activation nor licensing validation against a licensing server, everything is verified locally, at the time the product is used on a computer.

Because the license is in a plain text file, it can be easily checked and verified. Also, notice you can keep all registered computers’ CUID in a single license file, so the same license file can be used in all registered computers, this makes managing licensing across multiple computers really easy. You can easily make copies or backups of the license, and distribute the license to its users as an email attachment.

A license file is also a contract or the “proof of purchase”. When comes to product support, providing the license file would provide a lot of useful information about the customer’s licensing status.

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