Issue is the only place that signs. It records the licence, supersedes its
predecessor and updates the instance -- but deliberately does not deliver.
The ordering matters: a licence recorded but not delivered is recoverable,
because the customer can download it. A licence delivered but not recorded
is a support mystery with no paper trail.
Free stays cloud-only through one comparison of plan against instance
deployment, not a flag. Renewals reset relink_count because the cap is per
term.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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