Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
- Subject: Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:00:49 +0100
Joe Morris <email@hidden> wrote:
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I believe this is a good idea and would also get around the brought up
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problems of restricting a user to a certain username. For those of you
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who are saying that you should be allowed to install it on multiple
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machines, that is true, but allowing that for free makes it impossible to
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prevent arbitrary distribution of the same ability to anyone over the
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internet. For those of you who say that adding some sort of user
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identification won't stop piracy: of course it won't. The only hope is
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to slow it or to stop casual piracy.
Well there's also the idea of having floating licenses obtained from a
network daemon - allowing 'n' copies of the program to run at the same time
on a network.
Someone earlier suggested a commercial licensing package from
www.stone.com. A very common licensing package for other Unixes and even
Windows is also available for OS X - FlexLM from www.globetrotter.com. It
is very easy to use, pretty robust (it avoids most of the problems noted in
this thread) and it basically does enough to discourage the less than
determined pirate.
It will also probably be complete overkill for many apps...
Cheers,
Chris
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