Licensing management system

Description

License Management System (LMS) is an addon for Open Shop component (free download from EDC) that allows you to assign license or activation keys to immaterial products, like software, and sell these keys with the software. After a successful payment Open Shop will send the customer download links, if the product was downloadable, and also license keys from LMS. The number of the keys that will be send to the customer are equal to the quantity of the product purchased but are also affected by the licenses per item option of product. If, for example, licenses per item option for a product has a value of 3 then for each product of that type that is sold LMS will assign 3 licenses. This allows you to create "packs of products" as special offers or products for groups (for example 10 tickets pack). Note that LMS will not protect proprietary software from illegal actions such as copy and re-distribution because is not bind to the software you sell. LMS will handle automatically the license/activation keys.

The license keys can be generated automatically by LMS using rules you define which provides a strong backwards validation mechanism to the generated keys. More over after a key is assigned to an order it is moved from the Unsold list to the Sold list, and so the same key cannot be sold again. There is also a third list which is the Used list in which a key can be moved from the Sold list after it is used by the customer. The automatic move of a key from Sold list to Used list requires a remote activation system which is not provided by LMS because LMS is not integrated into the software you sell. You can also edit license keys and put them in any list manually or delete them. Finally if you dont want to use the automatic generated keys you can define your own custom keys.

You can use LMS to sell any kind of keys, not just license keys for software. For instance it can be used to sell lotery numbers, access codes, coupons, tickets, etc. If you think a little you will find much more interesting usages of LMS.

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LMS license

LMS license is commercial. This means that you are not allowed to sell, re-distribute or modify LMS. Is Open Source grants you the right to use the software, nothing else. You can use purchased LMS on any sites (Open Shop installations) YOU OWN. This means that you cannot give LMS software to a friend of yours, to a customer, or anyone else. If LMS is found on an Open Shop installation without the owner of that site having purchased the software it will be considered as a license violation and IOS will take the necessary legal steps against him. So if you have purchased LMS for site owned by person A and you want also to use it on an other site owned by person B you must purchase LMS again. If the new site is also owned by owner A you dont have to purchase LMS again.