Re: licensing perl code

Do you always consider your potential clients to be criminals? Copying code without a license is illegal. I'd say, don't do business with criminals. Besides, if they really are criminals, they probably have the means and the will to crack whatever you cook up. Compiled code can be decompiled. License keys can be broken.

Code based licensing is a lot easier to manage than trust, catch and legal.

I used to work for a company that sold software with a price tags up to several millions of dollars. And the customers could get the source code for free as well. We never had a problem that code was copied illegally. But then, we didn't deal with the maffia.

Abigail

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Re: Re: licensing perl code by marvell (Pilgrim) on Apr 10, 2003 at 14:40 UTC
The problem is that the product has a number of different user types. The most interesting one of these is the one that pays loads and they are not worried about them at all. It's the download it off of the web and sort it out yourself type that is the concern. -- Steve Marvell	[reply]
Re: licensing perl code by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 10, 2003 at 15:14 UTC
So, why put in on a website in the first place? Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: licensing perl code by marvell (Pilgrim) on Apr 11, 2003 at 14:04 UTC
For a quick sell to clueful users. -- Steve Marvell	[reply]