Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of communicating with a license management server configured to generate a license and that validates an application corresponding to the license by applying the license determines whether current timing has exceeded timing set in the applied license, requests, in response to determining that current timing has exceeded timing set in the applied license, a new license for the application from the license management server, applies the acquired new license, adds, in a case where the new license is not yet applied and the applied license has expired, the application to a screen for receiving an instruction for renewing the license from a user, and requests, apart from requesting the new license in response to a result of the determination, the new license in response to an instruction for renewing the license being received via the screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of communicating with a license management server configured to generate a license and that validates an application corresponding to the license by applying the license determines whether current timing has exceeded timing set in the applied license, requests, in response to determining that current timing has exceeded timing set in the applied license, a new license for the application from the license management server, applies the acquired new license, adds, in a case where the new license is not yet applied and the applied license has expired, the application to a screen for receiving an instruction for renewing the license from a user, and requests, apart from requesting the new license in response to a result of the determination, the new license in response to an instruction for renewing the license being received via the screen.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a safe mode for operation restricting a function of a bundle more than in a normal operation mode, comprises: an installation unit that installs a host bundle, and inactivates, as a temporary install, a fragment bundle added to the host bundle in order to extend a function of the host bundle, and stores the fragment bundle in a first memory area; and a holding unit that holds a list defining whether the temporarily installed fragment bundle is activated or inactivated when the information processing apparatus starts in the safe mode, wherein the installation unit, when the information processing apparatus starts in the safe mode, moves a fragment bundle defined to be activated in the list, out of temporarily installed fragment bundles, to a second memory area to activate that fragment bundle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a safe mode for operation restricting a function of a bundle more than in a normal operation mode, comprises: an installation unit that installs a host bundle, and inactivates, as a temporary install, a fragment bundle added to the host bundle in order to extend a function of the host bundle, and stores the fragment bundle in a first memory area; and a holding unit that holds a list defining whether the temporarily installed fragment bundle is activated or inactivated when the information processing apparatus starts in the safe mode, wherein the installation unit, when the information processing apparatus starts in the safe mode, moves a fragment bundle defined to be activated in the list, out of temporarily installed fragment bundles, to a second memory area to activate that fragment bundle.