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NANY 2012 Release: Simple Software Licensing
cranioscopical:
First time posting anything to Youtube.
-josant (January 04, 2012, 08:20 PM)
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Nicely done. Simple, clear, informative. :up:
40hz:
@josant - Very nice product.
I was wondering if you ever considered combining the validator part with a wrapper for a document file.
Ideally, the manager could be a simple utility to drop something like a PDF into it and create a one off license. Then the PDF could be combined with a locked launcher. The document could then only be unlocked and launched the first time by the buyer using the provided license key.
After that however, it would just display a splash screen with an "Exclusively licensed to: {name} call-out which you'd need to click through every time you opened the actual document.
Might be nice too if the file required a reapplication of its license key if it ever got transferred to a different PC.
That could be a real boon to people who produce and sell licensed instructional materials. Would go a long way towards cutting down on casual license violations.
:)
Deozaan:
Wow. That's neat!
Two days ago an idea popped into my head for a licensing method and I started hacking away at it trying to create one (in mono). I'd guess I'm about halfway done with it now but I sure wish I had seen this first. :Thmbsup:
Nice work!
josant:
I have actually been looking at a solution for locking Excel files which would be possible to do with PDFs too, unfortunately Adobe require a $50,000 per year :tellme: DRM agreement if you add plugins to Adobe reader which restrict access to or encrypt PDFs... So I wont be implementing that anytime soon!
It would be of course be possible to implement the license as an executable file which then opened an embedded PDF - unfortunately you would have to open the pdf through the launcher each time to retain any kind of security. But it should work.
I will create a proof of concept to see what is possible!
@josant - Very nice product.
I was wondering if you ever considered combining the validator part with a wrapper for a document file.
Ideally, the manager could be a simple utility to drop something like a PDF into it and create a one off license. Then the PDF could be combined with a locked launcher. The document could then only be unlocked and launched the first time by the buyer using the provided license key.
After that however, it would just display a splash screen with an "Exclusively licensed to: {name} call-out which you'd need to click through every time you opened the actual document.
Might be nice too if the file required a reapplication of its license key if it ever got transferred to a different PC.
That could be a real boon to people who produce and sell licensed instructional materials. Would go a long way towards cutting down on casual license violations.
:)
-40hz (January 17, 2012, 02:47 PM)
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josant:
Wow. That's neat!
Two days ago an idea popped into my head for a licensing method and I started hacking away at it trying to create one (in mono). I'd guess I'm about halfway done with it now but I sure wish I had seen this first. :Thmbsup:
Nice work!
-Deozaan (January 19, 2012, 06:15 PM)
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It's not too late to try this instead! I would actually be very interested in knowing if this works in Mono, it should do but you just never know...
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