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Re: Registration Code

  • Subject: Re: Registration Code
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:31:01 +0100
At 10:06 Uhr -0600 11.11.2004, Charles Srstka wrote:
That's true, although since I suggested encoding the MAC address in the preference file rather than in the code itself, the "breaking" would be minimal since the user could just re-enter his code, which would still work. Your suggest to use the username instead may be a good one, though. The problem with it is that if someone wants to register your app by machine rather than by user, by putting the preference file in /Library/Preferences instead of ~/Library/Preferences, this will break that ability.

No, it would still work. I meant "the user's name" not "the username". When they register, an application is typically registered in the name of a user and (optionally) a company. If you encode this info in your license key, and display it prominently, it will immediately obvious it's a stolen copy if Jeff Meyer uses an app that says "Licensed to Peter Watson".

PS - Whether you encode the name or do it another way isn't important, as long as a license key generally implies the associated name is also displayed.
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