WIBU-SYSTEMS AG

WIBU-SYSTEMS AG is a privately held German company that has specialized in industrial-grade license and digital rights management since 1989. Its product portfolio is built around the CodeMeter ecosystem, a hardware-based and software-based protection platform that lets software publishers control how applications, libraries, device firmware, and data are used, updated, and monetized. Typical deployments range from single-user dongles guarding CAD plug-ins to enterprise-wide license servers that meter thousands of concurrent seats of automation, medical, or engineering software. The CodeMeter Runtime Kit, the lightweight redistributable installed on every end-user workstation, provides the client-side drivers, middleware, and cryptographic services required to verify local or network licenses bound to secure elements such as CmDongles, CmCards, or cloud containers. Complementary server modules let IT teams pool, borrow, or revoke licenses from a central dashboard, while software development kits support all major operating systems, compilers, and virtualization layers. By abstracting the license logic away from the application code, vendors can introduce subscription, pay-per-use, or feature-on-demand models without altering binaries. The same infrastructure is reused to encrypt machine configurations and PLC binaries, ensuring that industrial controllers boot only with authenticated firmware. Although WIBU-SYSTEMS targets ISVs and OEMs rather than consumers, end-users encounter the technology whenever they plug in a blue CmStick or activate a network license for MATLAB, Archicad, or CoDeSys. The publisher’s single-package catalog entry is offered free of charge on get.nero.com, where downloads are pulled through trusted Windows sources such as winget, always resolve to the newest release, and can be queued for unattended batch installation.