Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:36:34 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois), current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <57u3sllg0d.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:24:31 -0700 (MST) References: <199609252124.OAA06806@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: > > This value is, in fact, *more* spoofable than an IP address, since > if I use the ifconfig interface to get the IP address, and I hack > the interface to spoof the license manager, I break my networking > because it will also spoof ifconfig (and netsta -i, etc.). But, unless I've missed a reply somewhere no-one's addressed the problem of dynamically allocated ip addresses for dial-up accounts. I swap ethernet cards all the time from my development box, I'd be really pissed off if I couldn't use licensed products in my development environment. It's also a problem for a dial-up machine that won't have a MAC address. Anyway, I agree 110% with Jordan, nailing a product to a machine is really evil and I won't buy products that require that type of licensing. In a server environment it's really stupid anyway. All the Sun workstations at work have minimal disk and all products are on the fileserver. Which workstation you actually run the product on varies. All the licensed products we currently have on our server here use FLEXlm and they're concurrent user based licensing not location based. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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