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SafeGuard LM is a software license manager from Persistent Security which implements license management and is intended to be used in corporate environments to provide node-locked, floating licenses and Internet activation to multiple end users of computer software.

SafeGuard LM libraries are localized to 19 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Korean, Dutch, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Swedish, Danish, Slovak, Slovenian, Russian and Hebrew.

SafeGuard LM supports native language interfaces for the following programming languages. C, C++, C#, GNU FORTRAN, Intel FORTRAN, Java, Python, Perl, Objective C, VB.NET, PHP, AutoHotKey and MetaTrader 4.

Software can be licensed in a variety of ways. A license to use a piece of software may be associated with a specific machine (node-locked), permitting it to only run on that machine (node in a network); alternatively, a company may buy a pool of floating licenses and these licenses may be allocated dynamically to machines, a license being checked-out when a user begins using the software on any given machine and checked-in when the user finishes using the software. In this way, for example, a company might buy a pool of 100 licenses but support a user community of hundreds of occasional users of the software (so long as no more than 100 users ever want to use the software simultaneously).

History
Development of SafeGuard LM began in April 2009 with node-locked and floating licenses. The product Activation Server (PAS) was added in 2012 whch features product activation over the Internet for both demo and paid licenses. The Product Activation Server is especially geard to subscription based licensing, as well as basic license generation with start dates, license by architecture, and locking of software to an unlimited number of attributes using the Vendor Defined host ID.

The product is currently developed by Persistent Security, LLC. as SafeGuard LM.

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