11.   Lycos said it expected to negotiate with companies that wanted to license the software to collect royalties on the patent.

12.   Mastercard will either license this software or write its own.

13.   Moreover, while Centennial is a shareholder and customer of Websecure, it does not license any software from the firm.

14.   Novell recorded new customers licensing its software in the quarter that included Whirlpool Corp., WorldCom Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive.

15.   Online retailers and others license the software to keep orders and credit card information sent over the Internet private and secure.

16.   Peritus licenses its software to several computer-services companies, including Computer Sciences Corp. and International Business Machines Corp.

17.   Procter, for one, has licensed software for controlling some manufacturing processes to Metler Toledo, which makes precision instruments.

18.   Recognizing this shift to DVDs and the commercial opportunities, LifeClips licensed software developed for the Pentagon by the David L. Sarnoff Laboratories in Princeton, N.J.

19.   Since going public, Security First has labored to sign up other banks to license its software.

20.   Some licensed the software from Firefly.