摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a license management system, capable of preventing license information issued to a terminal device from being affected by a relay device. SOLUTION: A management device 10 of a license management system 1 acquires a usage request of a content from an SD card 40 via the relay device 30, analyzes the acquired usage request, acquires usage environment information of the SD card 40 from the relay device 30, analyzes the acquired usage environment information, generates license information which includes a usage condition, corresponding to the analysis results of the usage request and the usage environment information, generates instruction information instructing the method of handling the license information in the relay device 30 based on the analysis result of the usage environment information, embeds the generated instruction information in the license information, and sends the license information to the relay device 30. The relay device 30 transfers the license information to the SD card 40, with no processing applied to the license information in accordance with the instruction information which is embedded in the received license information. |