Hi Adi, Thanks! I will take a look at this now :)
-c On Sunday 20 February 2005 01:23 pm, Adi Fairbank wrote: > Take a look at Crypt::License on CPAN. I used it a couple years back to do > exactly what you are trying to do. It encrypts your Perl source code and > then decrypts it on the fly. There is a slight overhead for the > decryption, but if running under mod_perl, that should be negligible since > it would only need to decrypt on apache startup. > > Ironically, I set it up for a company who was trying to enforce payment by > their customers, and then the bastard didn't pay *ME* for part of my work. > (I was an independent contractor) > > Anyway.. HTH, > -Adi > > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:48:30 -0500 > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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!