That's the problem. If you give customer Source code, they can get around the key. The only thing I could think of, was to only deliver object to certain Batch and Online modules that never change. Sort of Black Box those modules.
On the contract thing....well in our case at the time, it was a software sell and a bunch of mods we did for this Turkish Bank. They owed us around 1 million dollars...then they decided not to pay at all...all support for them ended. The problem was that it was a State Owned Bank....so we had to eat it. It was a hard lesson to learn. But even the keys, it was fascinating to see these keys. I've tried to understand how in the World these worked....i've seen a zap before to extended a product from now to next year....now the zap looked like a couple of LA's applied to a module...and the product extended to next year. But you don’t find ANY dates in this program, so how this is done has always been "Magic". Thanks, Tom Savor -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grinsell, Don Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 4:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Product license key program Tom, I guess it all depends on your contract terms. If the software requires a key to run, then you should be able to get paid for delivering an updated key. If you are delivering source code, well any competent programmer could probably circumvent your key logic and be prepared to face the consequences if you choose to audit them. On the other hand, if the license key is for support, then they have rights to use the software as delivered, but upgrades or help would require an active subscription easily verified on your end. Regards, Don -- Donald Grinsell, Systems Programmer Enterprise Technology Services Bureau SITSD/Montana Department of Administration 406.444.2983 (D) "It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." ~ Charles Dickens (1812-70) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 2:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Product license key program > > > Back to the keys question, I've tried to figure out how to even have > keys in the application system. > Places that I've worked at, there have been times when getting paid > for our software or services has been difficult to collect, so what about > keys ?? > Well, that becomes a challenge when we have always delivered the code > to the customer...not really sure how to do that. > > Thanks, > > Tom Savor > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
