You probaly need to write some critical portion of your application
in a language that can be compiled to object code, like C, otherwise
you are giving them the source code and a dishonest client could
re-write your code to avoid the license.

May I ask why rental? Why not an annual support contract instead?

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Chris wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> We would like to provide a software package that uses mod_perl that clients 
> can rent from us, which gets installed on their machine. We would like to 
> build some type of license checking, but considering its easy to tamper with 
> perl code what options do i have?
> 
> We would like to be able to "lock out" clients who may skip on the rental 
> bill, etc.
> 
> We cannot host this for them either.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

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