Defining Unlocked Products

An Unlocked Product is a license that can be installed by any user on any number of machines. An Unlocked Product is bundled with an SL AdminMode key or SL UserMode key as described below. The Unlocked Product is installed together with the protected application. The bundled protection key is activated automatically the first time the protected application runs.

If an Unlocked Product license has expired on a given machine, the user cannot reinstall the license to continue using the protected application.

An Unlocked Product is used:

>to distribute a protected application as trialware during a grace period (typically 30 to 90 days or 30 executions).

>to distribute a protected application that does not require any licensing restrictions and that can be used for an extended period of time or perpetually. The application is only protected against disassembly (although it may have some time limitation). You can choose to use a licensing mechanism other than Sentinel LDK to license the application (or you can choose to impose no additional license restrictions on the application).

NOTE To generate an Unlocked Product, you must purchase or subscribe to the relevant modules for your Sentinel LDK Master license.

An Unlocked Product can be defined for any type of Base Product. The properties of an Unlocked Product are similar to those for a standard Product, with the following exceptions:

>Locking Type: Unlocked Products are automatically assigned the SL AdminMode locking type. If the Base Product on which the Unlocked Product is based has the SL UserMode locking type, the Unlocked Product is assigned the SL UserMode locking type.

>License Terms: The maximum duration or maximum number of executions that you can define for any Feature in an Unlocked Product depends on the modules you have purchased or subscribed to for your Sentinel LDK Master license. The table that follows indicates the maximum value that can be assigned for a Feature in an Unlocked Product.

Licensing Limitation	Modules in Sentinel LDK Master license
Licensing Limitation	Unlocked Trialware	Unlocked Unlimited (With or Without Unlocked Trialware)
Maximum duration of Time Period license	90 days from first execution	3,650 days from first execution
Maximum duration of Expiration Date license	90 days from current date	31-Dec-2091
Maximum number of executions for Execution Count license	30	16,777,215
Availability of Perpetual license	Not available	Available

NOTE The use of the Execution Count license type for Unlocked Products is only supported when working with Sentinel License Generation API.

The Default Feature in an Unlocked Product is automatically assigned one of the following durations, depending on the modules in the Sentinel LDK Master license:

>For Unlocked Trialware: 90 days from first execution

>For Unlocked Unlimited (with or without Unlocked Trialware): Perpetual

For additional information on the purpose and use of Unlocked Products for trialware, see Designating Products for Trial or Grace Period Use.

For additional information on modules for the Sentinel LDK Master license, see Understanding the Sentinel LDK Master License.

Unlocked Products are not available for inclusion in customer orders. Users authorized to perform Development tasks can bundle Unlocked Products for distribution. For additional information, see Creating Bundles of Unlocked Products.