How about the use of a package supplied by you which is designed to
check with your client database from within the rented or leased
software?
Jay Scherrer
On Sunday 20 February 2005 12:33 am, Matisse Enzer wrote:
> 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!
