The SoftwareShield System is a full featured licensing
and copy-protection system for software developers who
create Windows applications on the x86 platform. The
SoftwareShield System allows you to make
copy-protected, demo, trial, pay-per-use, leased and
many other versions of your software.

License Models You Can Use:
Trial (evaluation licenses) - A time limited license
used for evaluation purposes. The Trial's functionality
may be less than the standard product in which case
this is a combined demo/trial. The day of expiration is
generally set on the day the license is issued.
Alternatively, the demo may expire after a certain
number of days after installation or after it has been
used a certain number of times - or combinations of all
three.

Time-limited (lease) - Vendors can issue licenses with
a specific expiration date. This is used for product
evaluations and product leases. Alternatively, vendors
can issue licenses that repeatedly expire to enforce a
periodic lease payment.

Demo (evaluation licenses) - A limited functionality
version used for evaluation purposes. The demo's
functionality is generally less than the standard product.

Enable/disable product features - In general, a product
is defined as having a set of licensed "features." In
this way, common features may be licensed across
different products. This also allows a single set of
product binaries to be licensed as a limited
functionality "lite" version, a "standard" version and
a "pro" version to give greater product "depth."

Pay-per-use - License fees are based upon actual usage.
The measurement of usage may be based upon computer
metrics (CPU use, time running, etc.) or upon metrics
tied to the nature of the application such as the
number of times feature X has been executed.

Node-locked (named-host) - Software is licensed for
unlimited concurrent use on a single computer system.

Countless combinations are possible, allowing you to
create the exact license you need.

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