The adobe-license-decoder is a command line tool that doesn't require any special privileges. It's like a 'secret decoder ring' for the licenses! Installation This tool can examine globally-installed SDL and FRL license files and tell you which apps they are for, which packages they are from, when they were installed, when they expire, and so on. While this information is invaluable, it's specific to the user account it is run in, and it doesn't give any general information about the licenses that are installed on the machine that haven't been used.Įnter the adobe-license-decoder, a different command-line tool that can tell you about FRL and SDL license files both before and after installation. if activated, what the expiration date is of the license.whether the license is activated for the given user and.the so-called 'npdId' (also known as the 'package id') of the license.This tool runs on client machines in the context of a particular user account and provides information about the state of FRL and SDL licenses that are installed on the machine, including: Anyone who has worked with FRL or SDL licensing is familiar with the adobe-licensing-toolkit command-line tool for Mac and Windows.
