Re: License / Registration key enabled software

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Playle
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:44:13 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Steve Holden enlightened us with: >> And you guarantee that the contents of the smartcard is only used by one >> user at a time by building a licensing system for the smartcards? > > We can never, ever make a 100% guarantee that people wo

Re: License / Registration key enabled software

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Playle
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:36:02 +0200, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Mike Playle enlightened us with: >> Having installed it all over the shop, how can you be sure that only 5 >> people are using it at any one time? > > Write the software in such a way that it needs a certificate o

Re: License / Registration key enabled software

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Playle
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:21:08 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: > Mike Playle wrote: >> For instance a customer might want to buy a license to >> use your software on up to 5 machines at once, but still >> have the software installed on every machine in the >> company. License s

Re: License / Registration key enabled software

2006-09-28 Thread Mike Playle
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:19:37 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> For instance a customer might want to buy a license to use your >> software on up to 5 machines at once, but still have the software >> installed on every machine in the company. > > This need is adequately served by not imposing usage restr

Re: License / Registration key enabled software

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Playle
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:51:01 -0700, T wrote: > We all know that there are many softwares that require some license key > or registration key to enable them. How does one implement something > like this in python? Here's a slightly different take on license keys that nobody else has mentioned: L