Deciding Length of License Code

You can generate licenses of varying length—in long, short, and short-numeric formats. This categorization also signifies the properties you can include is each format.

To avoid any typos in communicating license code strings, we suggest you to electronically transfer them as files (using e-mails or disks). The long licenses not only provide the flexibility of specifying longer values for the license properties, but also support certain additional licensing options, such as additive licenses , aggregate licenses, repository licenses, readable license codes,public vendor information, and so on. Refer to the license propertiestable to learn more about properties that are supported in long licenses codes.

>The short codes contain less information and cannot support certain licensing properties, but have the advantage of being easier to generate.

>The short-numeric license codes consist of numbers only and are optimized for a small size. Like short license codes, these do not support all license properties.

NOTE   Only long and short-numeric license codes can be generated for version 11 (and later) licenses. Short licenses can be generated for version 10 (or lower) licenses.