software licencing

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:35:14PM -0400, Justin Pessa wrote:
> On 8/27/06, Stephen Adler <adler at stephenadler.com> wrote:
> >As much as I hate the idea, the company I'm working for wants to protect
> >their software IP through
> >a licensing facility. Is there such a thing as an open source licensing
> >facility? Basically I want
> >my software to be able to call a routine which tells it that its
> >authorized to execute on the system
> >its on. Are there any companies selling this kind of software? I need it
> >to run on windows and Linux.
> >
> >Cheers. Steve.
> 
> I think the FlexLM license manager is something that would be worth
> looking into. I do not think it's open source, but it does run on
> Windows and Linux AFAIK.
> 
> http://www.macrovision.com/

My company uses a product which uses FlexLM. It's not overly
objectionable when used in the simplest manner (checks a local
file for a crypto hash). All other approaches end up being
nasty.

-dsr-

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