Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:38:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: terry@lambert.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Licensing Software Message-ID: <199609261638.JAA08330@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <12851.843705126@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 25, 96 07:32:06 pm
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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. What if I create false static routes between the license servers? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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