Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:31:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> To: jhs@FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, serious@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <199609250231.TAA01832@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> In-Reply-To: <199609250013.CAA02049@vector.jhs.no_domain> from "Julian H. Stacey" at "Sep 25, 96 02:13:01 am"
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> I plan to soon sell a 3rd party commercial binary FreeBSD product. > > I either need to : > - Develop alone, hooks for such things as > - constructing machine IDs (from poking around the system) > - user count (for single workstation or multi user server pricing) > - link crippled-write, time limited, demo versions > - make must be minimal hastle to authors, requiring no change to > - sources, just to Link flags > - non availability to me (as distributor) of source, > but availability of .o files > - Or I can maybe develop a mechanism with other interested commercial sellers, > so that FreeBSD would have some generic mechanism, & maybe unique > product & system keys. > > - Or I can even buy in such a solution if one's available ? > > I've read `Sun Expert' in the past, with horror stories of Sun lock managers > across nets, & I am not interested in any net strategies, > this will be local to the box. > > I'm not into academic elegant lots-of-effort solutions, > I'm after a cheap dirty quick solution, I don't want to spend much > time on this, my budgeted work time on this is limited, > (& I'd prefer to spend my free on public source, not licence stuff) > > I have to get something up quickly, & whatever I cobble together, > will be simpler to do alone (& keep secret :-), > but if other vendors are thinking along similar lines, & interested in > some kind of generic mechanism, then I'll try to comply. > > If anyone has something to give or even sell me, or wants to work with me, > please let me know. > > Thanks. > > Julian > --- > Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ > Kind of a neat but dirty way is to take the CRC of the system BIOS and the VGA BIOS. Problem with it is only if the card get's exchanged, etc. Ulf. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 Lamb Art Internet Services | http://www.Lamb.net/ | http://www.Alameda.net
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