Licensing Overview

Protection in this guide explained in detail how to protect your software and intellectual property. In addition to protecting these valuable assets, it is essential that you protect your company’s revenue by ensuring that your software is available only to the appropriate users, according to the terms that you define. This process is controlled by licensing.

Licensing provides you with the flexibility to implement your business strategies for the sale and distribution of your software products. You define the licensing terms with which your software is distributed or sold according to your decisions about what is commercially beneficial to your company.

For example, you may decide that you initially want to distribute your software free of charge, so that users can try it before purchasing. You will want to ensure that users can use it for only a limited time before it must be purchased.

Alternatively, you may publish very complex, expensive software. You may decide to make specific components of that software available for a lower price, thus making parts of it accessible to users who cannot afford the full-featured version.

The versatility of Sentinel LDK enables you to implement a wide variety of licensing models. For more information on the many models you can apply to your software offering, see Licensing Business Models.