Re: Methods of License Enforcement

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 07/15/03 

Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:53:06 +0000 (UTC)

Spam Bait sez:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm not sure whether this is the most appropriate newsgroup, but anyway...
>
> We've been asked by a client to develop a method of license enforcement
> for some software they've developed and intend to sell. Their software
> is an Access app ( yeah I know ... not particularly secure, but they are
> the customer ) but we intend to build some OCX objects, maybe in Perl,
> and re-use parts of it in later projects in Linux.

Right. Yes. OCX in Perl on Linux. What'll they think of next?

Dima 

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