License management solution, including time-limited evaluation type as well as capacity- and time- limited subscription paid type of licenses

License management solution, including time-limited evaluation type as well as capacity- and time- limited subscription paid type of licenses.

Some of the problems included:

Company’s product required license management solution, including time-limited evaluation type as well as capacity- and time- limited subscription paid type of licenses, to secure its on-premise deployments
Due to lack of licensing mechanism, Company’s product was not secured properly when deployed on-premises
Licensing mechanism code could be viewed and possibly circumvented having decompiled Company’s product code

Some of the solutions applied included:

Researching and evaluating available tools for license management solution
Generating time-limited evaluation type of license programmatically
Generating capacity- and time- limited subscription paid type of license programmatically or via command line
Importing capacity- and time- limited subscription paid type of license via REST service or command line
Validating evaluation and subscription type licenses programmatically
Viewing license used in Company’s product via REST service or command line
Using separate public/private key pairs for time-limited evaluation type of license and capacity- and time- limited subscription paid type of license
Integrating code obfuscation solution into build of Company’s product
Extracting license generation mechanism into separate component and exclude it from build of Company’s product

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