Re: [now OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C - Interest in product?
Re: [now OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C - Interest in product?
- Subject: Re: [now OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C - Interest in product?
- From: Bob Ippolito <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:08:23 -0400
Well a dual licensing scenario doesn't make much sense. It's unheard
of for something under the GPL (or similar) to require licensing. This
is one of those give-it-away-or-don't situations.
Your best bet, IMHO, is probably to tightly couple it with a
registration brokering house and arrange for them to give you a
kickback when a software developer uses your toolkit (maybe even per
registration), since your toolkit would essentially advertise their
system. This makes the software developers happy, because they do not
have to risk a large initial investment in your toolkit (since it is
free, maybe "as in beer" or possibly "as in speech" as well), it makes
the registration brokering house happy because they have more customers
which means they make more money, and it makes you happy because you
get paid :)
-bob
On Apr 6, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
Greg,
yes, might be.
But I work self employed. Thus, I earn my money directly
by my own work.
Although I like to give back stuff, I should have the money
component in focus - otherwise, I would die at starvation ;-)
Do you see some solution for this situation? Doing parts
as OpenSource and earning money as well?
Since such a project will certainly not be as big as
MySQL for example, the return in money might be quite
small.
Stefan
Am 07.04.2004 um 02:38 schrieb Greg Hulands:
Sounds like a sourceforge project to start!!
On 07/04/2004, at 9:20 AM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
How is the general interest in such a system?
We might pack a product and probably sell it.
Currently, this is what's it is doing:
- Generate public/private key pairs
- Generate a new serial number for each new license
- Enter client data and select license type (single/enterprise/..)
- LicenseBuilder as application
- license checker as library
- Interface code
- Handle several applications to be licensed
- Set RSA key size
- Sample project
- Create license files and digitally sing it (using LicenseBuilder)
- Verify license files (in client app)
- Probably Rendezvous based identification of other apps using
the same key
- All stuff is C/ObjC
What do you think?
What would you need?
Stefan
Am 07.04.2004 um 00:42 schrieb Shawn Erickson:
On Apr 6, 2004, at 3:11 PM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
But to my knowledge there isn't such advanced crackers on the
Mac, is there? :) Although we did have a guy state he could break
128 bit AES in no time, but hopefully he will only use this power
for good... ;)
AES in such a short time? Quite interesting! Shouldn't he
join NSA?
I think this is the guy he is talking about...
<http://homepage.mac.com/shawnce/misc/aesattack/>
-Shawn
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