摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a license managing system for effectively preventing the illegal use of a software license and reducing the workload of a user or a manager and a semiconductor device for realizing the license managing system. SOLUTION: A client 10 for executing prescribed software and a license managing server 30 for managing license to software are connected to a network 100, and an agent 50 for carrying out a license request and the transfer of the answer is also connected to the network 100. At the time of receiving the license request from the client 10 to the software to be executed by the client 10, the agent 50 selects one license managing server 30 for managing the license to the software, and transmits the license request to the selected license managing server 30, and receives an answer to the license request from the license managing server 30, and transfers the answer to the client 10. |