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Subject: Re: Licensing Software 
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:32:06 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> There is inherent locality associated with the license server.
> 
> I can reuse a license in your scenario if I can make equiavelent
> servers -- the same license may be checked out from both simultaneously.

Piddle and tosh.  It's an easy thing to make a license manager check
for duplicates and either work cooperatively or shut down again.

This also assumes that your LM also doesn't require an admin password
on startup - another way of making sure unauthorized types don't start
their own copies.  This is a non-problem.

					Jordan