1. A computer system comprising: hardware resources including processors, said hardware resources including active hardware resources with associated hardware use rights, said hardware resources including hardware resources without associated hardware use rights that are inactive, said active hardware resources being distributed among plural partitions including first and second partitions, each of said partitions providing for running a respective workload thereon; and a license tracker for tracking assignments of hardware use rights to said hardware resources, said license tracker being adapted for assigning different weightings respectively to hardware resources of first and second types so as to equate the hardware use rights associated with said first quantity of a first type of said hardware resources with the hardware use rights associated with a different quantity of said second type of said hardware resources.