This is why Engineers should not go near marketing, salespeople and bureaucrats; we don't mix!
The munificent ${EMPLOYER}, has sold (among other things) a licence to use our software to a Polish customer. Now this software is used to manage network hosts, so this is a licence to run on a particular host, which will (in turn) manage a network. The customer already had the software installed & running, so all that was required was a wee software key for that host to be generated & e-mailed to them, which we did.
The bright sparks in marketing (or sales) in Poland have somehow translated this sale to be a licence to manage 35 hosts (why that many?). If that isn't silly enough, (like the software doesn't care how many hosts are managed), there was a requirement to supply 35 ${SOMETHINGS} for the purposes of the Polish customs. Customs had to see 35 items cross the border. So, how does our clever sales team respond? They decided that they would sent 35 CDs with a copy of the unlicensed software to the customer.
BRILLIANT!
Then there was the account rep. who wanted something signed in triplicate, so he faxed me 3 copies to sign and fax back ... strange but true.