Licensed model: a row that ends elsewhere
A licensed model is a row on a seller's menu that somebody else makes. It ends when its maker decides, arrives at the customer as an edit to a page, and in this register no seller publishes anything about how such a decision would be passed on. As of 2026-09-22.
| Decided by the maker | Decided by the seller |
|---|---|
| Whether the model continues to exist | Whether it stays on this menu |
| The retirement date, if published | The price, the tier and the conversion |
| The successor, if named | Whether the row is marked as licensed |
| Notice to its own customers | Notice to yours, which is nowhere published |
Inclusion rule. Distinctions drawn from how the entries in this register present licensed rows. Several draw no distinction at all. Order. What the maker decides first, then what the seller does.
1Two failure modes in the same typeface
On several menus here, house rows and licensed rows are presented identically, so a reader has to already know which maker each name belongs to. The two halves fail on different companies' decisions.
Marking the licensed rows would change nothing about the risk and everything about whether a reader can see it. Two entries reached the same unmarked arrangement without coordinating.
2The date exists one layer up and travels nowhere
Where a maker publishes a retirement date, the seller reselling that model does not repeat it. So the information exists, the affected customer exists, and nothing connects them except a reader who knows to look upstream.
That only works if the seller named a version. Where it named a maker, the upstream date cannot be matched to the purchase at all.
3Aggregation spreads the exposure without reducing it
An entry carrying six makers' models has six schedules and authority over none of them. When one retires something, five rows remain and a series built on the sixth is still broken.
The aggregation question sets out why that is a structural point rather than a criticism of how any of these products are run.
A definition rather than a dated entry: no line above is a vendor statement. Where this word turns up in a real notice, the wording and the date are on the lines on several menus. Nearby terms: Aggregator, Credit conversion, Output unit.