A company that provides you to license software to use online is an example of subscription. Further Explanation: Software license is a legal document between the publisher and individual user. The publisher is also known as licensor and individual is known as purchaser. If you buy a software program, it must have a license program that is included to protect from copyright infringement. While purchasing a software, one should keep in mind about unique features of the license which are as below: Stand-Alone Software: Stand-Alone software is this software which do not come in bundles or they are installed in a single computer or used by an individual user. The advantage of the stand-alone software is that they do not need any help from any other software and the disadvantage is the individual cannot use the stand-alone software in a unique system. It comes with hardware security key. Subscription license: Subscription license is used for the software on the subscription basis. The subscription may be or yearly basis. Site license: Site license is a of license that allows installing software package in multiple system. Network license: It comes with a hardware security key without taking care of the number of users included in the network license. For example, Quick heal has a network license of 10 systems. So, 10 systems can install the Quick heal antivirus and after that it will block for license.
