Doug, can you expand your idea?
What would happen if vendor A and vendor B happen to install their program
on the same machine? Obviously, only one Interbase would exist.
What would happen if vendor A enforces restrictions through licenses and
vendor B doesn't need licences to allow any number of users?

C.
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Claudio Valderrama C.
Ingeniero en Informática - Consultor independiente
http://members.xoom.com/cvalde

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Chamberlin [mailto:dchamberlin@...]
> Sent: Martes 11 de Abril de 2000 19:02
> To: IB-Architect@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] IB licensing methods
>
>
> What about this:
>
> Current IB licensing uses license keys installed into the server
> to control
> maximum simultaneous connections. Assuming that application
> vendors depend
> on this scheme now for their application licensing, if it continued they
> would be satisfied, right?
>
> OK, if that is true, then the challenge becomes one of allowing
> any vendor
> to take over the previous role of IB Corp - that of generating
> and issuing
> license keys. We can do that by enhancing the key generation process to
> include a vendor supplied key value. Each application vendor could supply
> this vital part of the key generation/validation process. Servers
> installed
> by this vendor would then only work using license keys generated by them.
> Applications made by these vendors would only work with servers that were
> using their licensing keys. The valid keys need only be
> recognized in some
> way by the applications and the server code. This seems to be relatively
> small adjustment to the current scheme since the licensing tool
> already has
> key checking code in it.
>
> Those application vendors who do not need to be bothered by this can opt
> for an alternative option in building their servers without the licensing
> module included. Those versions of the server code would not work
> with the
> above client applications, however, unless the customer went to
> the effort
> of spoofing the valid license key values. In the end, any customer who
> actually does this is not going to be stopped for long by any
> better scheme.