Mike Playle wrote: > For instance a customer might want to buy a license to > use your software on up to 5 machines at once, but still > have the software installed on every machine in the > company. License systems like FlexLM can work here, to > make it easier for them to ensure that they comply with > the terms of the license.
But then you must weigh that against the inconvenience that you impose upon your customers. Although you may make it easier for them to comply with your license, you are also making it harder for them to *use* your software. I do not know a single person who has used FlexLM-licensed software and does not hate FlexLM with a burning passion. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list