Friends, 

Platform: OSX 

Distribution: Outside of App Store

Aim: I want to distinguish “ordinary users” of my app from “commercial users”, 
where the latter might be defined as anyone installing my app on 5 or 10 (pick 
a number) different macs. 

Rationale: I want to offer my app for free to home users, but have those who 
use my app for commercial purposes (encouraged to) pay something. I know I can 
stipulate that in the licence, but since I’m a small, indie developer there’s 
no way I can enforce a licence in any case.

I know how to get the machine identifier, but I don’t know how to write that 
information back to the app. I see from my search-fu (never the strongest) that 
modifying the info.plist is “not the done thing” and will fail under some 
circumstances. 

Commercial users of my app are likely to run the same copy from a USB Flash 
drive on many machines. 

Is there some logic I can use and save in my code to track the number of 
installs and whether they’re on the same machine or not?


TIA


Phil
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