Integrating software protection and licensing, such as CodeMeter technology, into your own application can be done easily and effectively with APIs and tools. The introduction of your own app store or marketplace for your own and third-party applications can also be implemented quickly and easily with the help of ready-made solutions such as FLECS Marketplace.

Looking at the combination of the two solutions, questions arise about the workflows for the different user groups, security requirements, license models and integration interfaces. How is protection provided? How can third-party providers be easily integrated? How is the software distributed to the user? How is the license activated for the end device? How is a secure connection to the device ensured?

Secure license connection to end device

By combining Wibu-Systems' CodeMeter technology with FLECS' Marketplace technology, these questions are answered with standard processes. With the CodeMeter SmartBind technology patented by Wibu-Systems, the license is securely bound to the end device.

CodeMeter Protection Suite is a simple tool for integrating CodeMeter, which subsequently encrypts your own and third-party applications. A license for the purchased software is automatically generated in CodeMeter License Central via an interface from the store. The user can simply transfer the license to the desired end device via a free app.

Integrated solution

The successful integration of CodeMeter into the FLECS Marketplace as part of an Open Industry 4.0 Alliance project means that an end-to-end solution is now available as a standard in a marketplace. Software manufacturers and publishers can easily bring their applications into the marketplace without having to worry about software protection, licensing and processes. Users can use the same standard application to roll out and manage licenses from different manufacturers using a process that has already been learned.

Implementation of protection and licensing

The CodeMeter Protection Suite provides app developers with various tools that subsequently provide a finished application with a license and protect it against modification and spying. The app is broken down into individual parts and the use of these parts is inextricably linked to the existence of a license through encryption. This technology is available for apps that are developed in different programming languages and frameworks, for example for .NET, nodeJS and Python applications as well as for all programming languages that generate machine code, such as C, C++ or Go. Typically, this protection step is integrated into continuous integration systems and parameterized by a license manifest.