Hi, Sorry for this really off-topic question, but I hope you guys can give me any advice. I have a program that I'm going to commercialize in three modes: individual, group and site licenses. This program can be downloaded from a web site and can be used for 60 days . After this period, users will need a key to 'unlock' the program to continue using it. When a user buys the program, he gets the key and once the key is entered, the program will be registered to that user and this information will appear both in the splash screen and in the about box of the program. So far so good. As for site licenses, the process will be quite similar. However, I'm not sure how to deal with group (e.g 5, 10, 15, .) licenses. For example, the program is intended to be used by research groups (e.g. organic chemistry). Consider a research group with 20 members. I can think in two scenarios: (1) The director of the group buys just one license and distributes copies between their students. (2) He buys a group license. A group license is much cheaper than buying individual copies.
Point (2) will be the ideal scenario. As for point (1), I could implement a protection system in the program to limit the number of computers that can use a key at the same time in the same network. Another option would be to lock the program to a specific computer. However, I believe these solutions will bring me many technical problems, particularly on the client side. Do you know of any other alternative to deal with group licenses? I don't need to implement a very sophisticated method. I know that if people wants to use the program illegally, they will do it anyway despite of the protection system implemented. This is particular true in the academia. However, program will be also used in pharmaceutical companies where I think they have more restrictions on the software they can use. Thanks for your views on this subject. Regards, Carlos ====================== Carlos Cobas www.mestrec.com Santiago de Compostela ====================== _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
