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- From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Using the serial # in ROM as a copy protection mechanism...?
- Message-ID: <404@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 17:02:40 GMT
- References: <1gte4tINNs3r@ni.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- In article <1gte4tINNs3r@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A.
- Mamakos) writes:
-
- [ .. pros and cons about using a hardwired 'serial number' for
- licensing removed ... ]
-
- > You either trust your users or not. The approach that I like is to
- > give the user some piece of information that needs to be supplied to
- > enable the application. This piece of information uniquely identified
- > the *owner* of the software.
-
- > louie
-
- Well, you'll trust your suppliers or not :-) Your scheme - as effected by
- the licensing for the (C)SLIP package - works fine for me - except for one
- little detail. I obtained a license to use Compressed SLIP with my Neuron
- 1414 modem. Now this weekend I upgraded to 3.0, thereby effectively
- disabling Compressed SLIP, because it depends on being able to patch the
- kernel to permit IP packets < 536 bytes. Fortunately - I thought - there
- was an updated version of your CSLIP package on the Education Software
- Sampler CD-RON. Alas, installing this package overwrites the license file
- ... Because I'm very paranoid about keeping originals, I could go back
- and re-install the old version - and ended up doing the kernel hack myself
- :-)
-
- Great software, though - kudo's ...
-
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