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Systems and methods for providing authentication and authorization for software license management of a particular software-controlled application are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store information electronically, including different types of user information, hardware information, key information, and license information; receive a user request for user-specific authentication and device-specific authorization to access and/or use the particular software-controlled application; perform different types of (automated) verification based on the user identifier, the hardware identifier, and the machine identifier in the user request; and, responsive to particular results from the different types of verification, perform some combination of transferring a response to the user request and performing registration and/or assignment as requested.