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

In reply to Re: licensing perl code by Abigail-II
in thread licensing perl code by marvell

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