Select your License Container
Transferring Licenses
Re-Hostable Licenses
Additional Options
Activated licenses can generally be deactivated
or returned. Your settings decide whether
this can be done for your licenses. There are
two typical cases for returning a license: A
planned transfer to another computer or the
rescission of the actual sales contract. Since
you, the vendor, can be expected to support
the planned and legitimate transfer of licenses,
the button is named “Transfer licenses.”
which you can allow a recovery: the recovery
of single licenses, or the recovery of entire
CmContainers. CodeMeter License Central
2.10 or newer is required for the latter case.
The “Transfer licenses” page also handles
the returning of licenses. If the licenses are
distributed on multiple CmContainers, the
users first choose a CmContainer, then select
the licenses to be returned, and finally click on
“Return selected licenses”.
The users are also notified that the original
license is voided and placed on a blocked list.
You can also define certain rules for retrieving
licenses. For instance, you can determine that
all older licenses on a ticket are also retrieved
when a new license is downloaded. This would
be a perfect means for ensuring that no user
can skip an update in sequential updates.
This also applies in the other direction – the
return or recovery of licenses. With the right
settings, all newer licenses are also returned.
Other settings include “always all licenses”
and “only the most recent license.”
Continuing the Transfer
Conclusions
All of these cases are common for
online activation, where the user has
the right CmContainer connected to an
internet-enabled computer with a browser
that supports Websockets, ActiveX, or Java. In
all other case 2