About Domain-Based Licenses

Domain-based licenses tie licensed products to a network domain. Domain-based licenses support products licensed through the GoldPass and ScholarPASS programs and link software to network domains rather than specific license servers. Domain-based licenses function without using a centralized license manager and without enforcing hard limits on the number of users.

The license agreement signed by your organization includes information about the network domains where licensed software is installed and any limitation on the number of users. Licenses are issued only for the domains associated with your site as described in your agreement.

Depending on how your network domains are set up, you can acquire a license for a single product (or product feature) that makes it available on all of the network domains at your site. You can also receive individual licenses for each domain and subdomain. This allows you reasonable control of user access to the software. For example, the license agreement may simply identify my_org.org as the domain on which licensed software may operate. However, you can acquire a license for a particular subdomain (for example, eng.my_org.org) and limit access to that subdomain as well as its subdomains.