> Hi people,
>
> Has anyone been able to conceive some kind of licencing scheme in Perl ?
> That is, I want to deploy a Perl program that the customer will only be
> able to use for 30-60-90-30n days. This causes great problem to implement
> in
> Perl since the customer could simply comment-out the line that does the
> check (no matter what kind of check that is). I could use obsufucation
> technique, but that seems annoying. Anyone has a suggestion
>
> Hi Robin,
>
> wnat platform are you on? If it is Microsoft then you might want to look
> at
> the perl development kit from active state. They have a utility to convert
> your script to an exe file. There is also perl2exe from another vendor for
> the same thing.
>
I am on Solaris (2.6-2.8 depending). I just tried perl2exe and it
works
like a charm. (At least, it seems to). Do you know how reliable is
it ?
It would provide a quick and cheap solution. How does it work
internally ?
It embeds a Perl interpreter inside and self interpret the rest of
the data?
-Robin
