Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
- Subject: Re: protecting software & uniquely identifying the machine
- From: Joe Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:32:48 -0700 (PDT)
Well yeah, that's the other thing - in the near future at least I'll be lucky to release one shareware application, and setting up some sort of internet license system for that is WAY overkill, IMHO. :-)
-Joe
On Tuesday, 18, 2002, at 09:00AM, Chris Ridd <email@hidden> wrote:
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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.
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Well there's also the idea of having floating licenses obtained from a
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network daemon - allowing 'n' copies of the program to run at the same time
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on a network.
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Someone earlier suggested a commercial licensing package from
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www.stone.com. A very common licensing package for other Unixes and even
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Windows is also available for OS X - FlexLM from www.globetrotter.com. It
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is very easy to use, pretty robust (it avoids most of the problems noted in
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this thread) and it basically does enough to discourage the less than
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determined pirate.
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It will also probably be complete overkill for many apps...
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Cheers,
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Chris
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