W dniu 2017-04-21 o 16:20, Wendell Lovewell pisze:
I work for a vendor, so I understand the necessity of making sure that licensed
products are used properly. But I also understand the inconvenience for both
the customer and the vendor of managing software keys.
I’m wondering what the list’s response would be toward implementing a system
that automatically managed the keys by allowing the software to “phone home” to
update them. My thoughts are that each time the software was started, and
perhaps periodically, it would report its own key (to identify the customer),
CPU id, MSU and/or whatever licensing metric was used. If a verification
response could not be obtained, either because of license expiration or
communication errors, a grace period of “n” days would be allowed.
There would obviously be encryption, high availability, and possibly even
customer firewall considerations. But it seems like a fair trade to me.
Opinions?
[my €0.02]
We all understand licenses should be paid, not stolen, IMHO that's obvious.
A little bit less obvious is the need of license enforcement, especially
there are companies (IBM) which do not use enforcement. However I think,
the most of us agree the need is justfied by the real life cases.
Regarding the "call home" method - I DONT LIKE IT!
Really, that's not good idea to enforce Internet connection just to
perform such an action. I would agree for HMC to communicate, however I
have no idea whether it's possible. Can BCPii be enhanced used for such
purposse? That would be preferrable to use IBM call home site as the
hub. ISV's shoudl communicate to IBM, instead of customer. Too complex
IMHO.
More practical approach: the product periodically or just by demand
create some token. Admin sends the token using copy-paste and e-mail or
webservice. The he gets some response (again, numerical token) which
should be put into the product in order to elongate licence period. I
should be required once a quarter or less frequently, it should be able
to be performed just today, because tomorron I start my holiday, etc.
Last, but not least: I wish I had same way of licensing enforcement for
all products.
Regards
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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