A distributed method for licensing a software product is disclosed. Access to a software product by a user is requested at a client-side. An identity of the user and a local setting of the client-side are determined. At a server-side, licensing information specific to the determined local setting is selected from a licensing database. The selected licensing information is transmitted from the server-side to the client-side and then output at the client-side to the user. At the client-side, confirmation of a license agreement for the software product based on the output licensing information is requested.