breach
A breach generally means the act of breaking, or failing to observe, the terms of the
legal license agreement that exists between your enterprise and the publisher of some
software in use in your enterprise. The most common form of breach is using too many copies
of the software, so that in FlexNet Manager Suite, a breach is often represented as a
quantity by which you are In breach.
Important: In
FlexNet Manager Suite, the phrase "at risk" means only that your records
of consumption against a license exceed your records of purchases. This may be
caused by multiple factors, including when there are license entitlements that have not
yet been imported. At all times your enterprise has and retains the legal responsibility
of ensuring that, in fact, it complies with the terms of all contracts, including
software licenses and maintenance agreements, to which it is a party. For this reason,
the general terminology in help is that a license is "over-utilized",
according to records in the system.