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Licensing is a topic of increasing importance for software publishers and users. More and more, software licensing is performed electronically by mechanisms running on the system on which the licensed software operates. In order to facilitate the use and management of such licensing systems and to enable economic software usage in enterprise-wide computer systems, various organizations are formulating requirements and defining architectures and standard interfaces for license systems