[Haskell-cafe] Software Deployment and Distribution - WAS Re: CUFP mailing list

2010-03-22 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hello Erik, all right then. I've written a commercial Desktop application in Haskell for the Win32 platform. The one thing missing is Software Copy Protection, ie. a software licensing mechanism. When I google for Software Copy Protection I get a lot of results, commercial products

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Software Deployment and Distribution - WAS Re: CUFP mailing list

2010-03-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Günther Schmidt wrote: I've written a commercial Desktop application in Haskell for the Win32 platform. The one thing missing is Software Copy Protection, ie. a software licensing mechanism. When I google for Software Copy Protection I get a lot of results, commercial products

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Software Deployment and Distribution - WAS Re: CUFP mailing list

2010-03-22 Thread MightyByte
Fundamentally, Software Copy Protection (as well as DRM) is an unsolvable problem. It's basically like saying that you want to give someone something and not give it to them at the same time. With physical products there are physical properties that you can use to accomplish some aspects of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Software Deployment and Distribution - WAS Re: CUFP mailing list

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hi Günther Congratulations! You might find this article useful. Though it only mentions one particular system Armadillo, there are a number of good tips like releasing updates frequently so the binaries change, and the author is well regarded in micro software circles.