About Trial Licenses

A trial license is a temporary license that remains valid for the number of days or hours specified. It offers the following benefits:

>Convenient for customers to evaluate your licensed application before making their purchase decisions.

>When a trial license is exhausted, your customers can buy a normal license or add up more trial licenses for further access to your software without re-installing it.

>Trial licenses have built-in security to discourage licensing violations or reuse of the same license, like system clock tampering or re-installation of the software.

Deployment Modes Supported

The trial license functionality described in this chapter applies only to On-premises mode. For Lease mode and Connected (Cloud LM) modes, you can support licensed applications with normal licenses with limited date (start and end date).