site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On vendredi, avril 27, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Filippo Ignozza wrote: Hmm, would "none" be a good answer? My $0.02 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... Hi, I am sorry if i posted this request in this mailing list but it seem to be the more suitable among the ones hosted in the apple developer section. If you can suggest a better place where i can post it, it would definitely help. i would like to know what is the most popular way in the Mac world to protect/licensing a commercial software What i need a 3rd part software to protect/licensing my product (not just the installation process), and to rely on it as the only way for licensing it. I Know many of them in the windows world (Sheriff-software, Aladdin HASP) but i want to know what is the most common for Mac OSX. Most of the products I've seen are using proprietary software solution (you need to enter a license number and voilà). Some solution may require you to go to a website first, enter a registration key to get a final license number but that's all. Usually, the solutions that are phoning home to confirm a license number is legitimate are quite criticized by "users". I had a quick look at Aladdin HASP and it seems to be available on Mac OS X too. For a pure software license SDK, the only one I can think of is the one made by Stone Design. Only issue is that it's Cocoa only AFAIK and your products seem to be X11 applications. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com