When are local licenses assigned?

Question

Xbox Marketplace purchases come with two licenses: system and local. Respectively, you can use the purchase wherever you're logged in with your gamertag ("system"), or with any gamertag on the console associated with the purchase ("local"). When is this "local" license assigned?

Scenario 1

If I make a purchase on a console, is the local license assigned when the content is finished downloading, when the download is initiated, or when the download is first added to the queue?

If I buy an item on console A but don't finish downloading, and later log into console B, will the download automatically queue to redownload on this console B? Accordingly, is the local license then assigned to console B?

Scenario 2

If I make a purchase on Xbox.com, is the local license assigned to the first console I log into? Or is it assigned to my home console somehow? Is there no local license automatically assigned at all in this case (unless reassigned with the License Transfer tool)?

Answer 1

This is the closest I could come to finding a real answer. There is almost nothing about this topic on any site but hopefully it helps.

How do I obtain licenses for content?

Licenses are automatically acquired when you download content. If a license is missing or has become corrupted, you can access the download history on your Xbox 360 console and redownload that content to reacquire a license. This process refreshes existing licenses and does not transfer licenses to a new console, unless the license transfer tool was used first.

So for both your scenarios...

Scenario 1

It seems the local license is updated every time you download DLC to an Xbox system. It would give the license to system A since you started it on that one first (Not 100% sure but it makes the most sense)

Scenario 2

It would give the license to the first console you download it to with your Account the DLC was purchased on.