If you have a license for a previous release of Rational Suite, that license is valid in the current release, but the search order for the license key has changed.
In earlier releases, when a product from Rational Suite was installed, the Rational License Key Administrator (LKAD) application tried to find a license key that corresponded to Rational Suite. If such a key was not available, LKAD searched for a key that corresponded to the product itself.
In version 7.1, LKAD looks for the product-specific license key first. You can still use the License Usage Mapper in LKAD to change this search order or have the application not search for a Rational Suite key.
For more information on changing the search order for license keys, see Understanding license usage order.