You probaly need to write some critical portion of your application in a language that can be compiled to object code, like C, otherwise you are giving them the source code and a dishonest client could re-write your code to avoid the license.
May I ask why rental? Why not an annual support contract instead? On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > We would like to provide a software package that uses mod_perl that clients > can rent from us, which gets installed on their machine. We would like to > build some type of license checking, but considering its easy to tamper with > perl code what options do i have? > > We would like to be able to "lock out" clients who may skip on the rental > bill, etc. > > We cannot host this for them either. > > Thanks! >
