home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!gimper
- From: gimper@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stuart Miyasato)
- Subject: Re: Copy Protecting Apps
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.195511.21624@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Aug31.230410.3151@morrow.stanford.edu> <pwd-010992140745@thunder.apple.coms>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 19:55:11 GMT
- Lines: 53
-
- In article <pwd-010992140745@thunder.apple.coms> pwd@Apple.com (Patrick W. P. Dirks) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug31.230410.3151@morrow.stanford.edu>,
- >shahrol@harper.stanford.edu (Shahrol) wrote:
- >>
- >> We are setting up a CAP server on a DEC 5000/240 for the coming school
- >> year. The question I have is how are the applications copy-protected,
- >> ala AppleShare 3.0?
- >>
- >
- >Well, I can't speak for the administrative side of CAP but I thought I'd
- >pass on my favorite cheap hack in this department:
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >someone came up
- >with the idea of adding some resource (say GNRL #42) that was big enough to
- >make the application file >800K. That made it impossible to drag them over
- >to a floppy, and without ResEdit or Div/Join type tools, nobody could copy
- >them! It worked beautifully for them. The best part was, since this
- >resource is never loaded during program execution it didn't affect speed
- >of execution a bit.
- >
- >-Pat Dirks.
-
- Thanks for the advice Pat. (I'm currently working along with the original
- poster on solving this problem.) Unfortunately, it's not quite going to
- work in our environment. I think I should elaborate a bit.
-
- I work with Shahrol (the original poster) in a computer cluster for
- students here at Stanford. Our problem is two-fold: one, keeping students
- from unauthorized copying of software, and also keeping our licensing
- agreements.
-
- We have approximately 40 Mac IIs for students to use. The applications
- on the hard disks are protected by 'blowing up' the resources as Pat
- suggested. However, we also have software that we don't have licensed
- for every machine. What we were doing was putting them on an AppleShare
- 3.0 server and setting the maximum number of copies that could be in use
- simultaneously.
-
- So first, we need to know how to keep students from copying the applications
- from the CAP server to their hard disks (and thus possibly violating our
- license agreements). And second, we need a way to enforce the licensing
- agreements assuming the application is run directly off the server.
- Any ideas?
-
- As kind of a side note, has anyone successfully run LaunchBreak to protect
- applications on an AUFS server? Would that solve both of our problems,
- or does anyone have an even better method?
-
- Thanks in advance,
- -- Stuart Miyasato (gimper@leland.stanford.edu)
- Computer Maintenance Coordinator, Meyer Library, Stanford University
-