The present application provides a software authorization method and apparatus, which are applied to a license server. The method comprises: acquiring a quantity of authorization resources of an installed authorization file, and obtaining a total quantity of authority resources according to the quantity of the authorization resources, wherein the quantity of the authorization resources is a quantity of authority resources corresponding to the authorization file, the authority resources are usage units of software, and the total quantity of the authority resources is a sum of a quantity of authorization resources of an available authorization file of the software; acquiring a resource usage quantity of the software, wherein the resource usage quantity is a quantity of the authority resources that has been used by the software; determining whether the total quantity of the authority resources is greater than the resource usage quantity; and when the total quantity of the authority resources is greater than the resource usage quantity, determining successful software authorization. The method and apparatus provided by the present application are capable of flexibly managing software authorization.