licenseSpring Integration in Admin UI
The LicenseSpring platform can currently handle the following license models:
- **Perpetual **: Once Activated, the license never expires
- Time Limited: The license will expire at a predetermined time in the future after it has been activated
- Subscription: The license validity is synchronized with a subscription-based billing cycle.
- Consumption: Also known as pay-per-use or metered licensing, this allows the publisher to control a number of times a routine is run (cycles, opens etc.)
For Admin UI we are using Time Limited license Type.
In order to issue a license to an end-user, you have 2 options:
- Key-based licensing: entitlements are associated with the license key. They are node-locked to the machine that it is activated on.
- Email / Password: A license is first issued and then assigned to a user, through an email and password combination. This license is directly paired to the end-user's credentials, and is also node-locked.
For Admin UI we are using Key-based licensing license Type.
We have opened a free account in LicenseSpring which allows only 5000 monthly api requests and 3 products.
Once you activate your new account, log in and click Configure Products > Add new Product. We have created Gluu Admin UI product with the license-key authorization method.
Reference: https://docs.licensespring.com/docs/getting-started
After the product is created, we have created 2 time-limited licenses under Gluu Admin UI product. The license-key of these licenses are used in development/testing environments.
