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Figure 61: License management: tab "New license" from the license management window
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Before continuing with the next steps, some basic concepts and terms of license management have to be introduced:
14.4.1 Some aspects and terms of the license concept
Licensing means the actual deployment of a permission to use a software by installing the software on a client. This
might (but doesn’t have to) include the use of a special license key (license key).
The software license is the permission to install and use a software as defined by the license contract. Within the
opsi database a software license is identified by a softwareLicenseId.
There are several types of software licenses (volume license, OEM license, time limited license etc.) which are the
different license models. A software license is based on a license contract (license contract), which is defining and
documenting the juristic aspects of the license.
A license option defines the option to use a software license for a selected license pool. Within opsi the license option
is defined by a combination of softwareLicenseId and licensePoolId. This includes the actual licenseKey (if required).
Finally the license usage documents the use of a license by assigning the license option to a client. This is the legal
and implemented licensing of a software defined by the combination of softwareLicenseId, licensePoolId, the unique
client name hostId and (if required) the licenseKey.
14.4.2 Registering the license contract
After selecting the license pool for the new license option, the next step is to register the license contract the license
is based on. The section "Select or enter license contract" (from tab "New license") defaults to a standard contract
with ID default. The default setting can be used if the license contract is implied by purchasing the software or the
contract is documented some other way. Otherwise the contract can be selected from the table or a new contract can
be registered from the context menu. The license contract dataset comes with data fields for partner, conclusion date,
notification date and expiration date. The entry field notes can hold some additional notes like the location where the
contract document is kept. The unique contract ID (licenseContractId) is for identifiying the license contract in the