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- From: gerardi@sdr.slb.com (Paul Gerardi)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Copy Protecting Apps
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.002412.2093@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 00:24:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.195511.21624@leland.Stanford.EDU>, gimper@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stuart Miyasato) writes:
- >
- > 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?
- >
- > [...]
- >
- >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?
- >
-
- At the risk of stating the obvious: If you're already using AUFS why not use
- the Application Manager (added in path number 61 I believe).
-
- By configuring the m4.features file (see README in (cap60/contrib/AppManager))
- and specifying the "-A" flag on aufs at runtime you can set a limit
- on the number of users that can simultaneously run an application that
- resides on the AUFS server. It is also protected from being finder copied.
-
- I't been working great: We have 25 users who want to run Excel. So we buy
- 5 copies (aka "licenses") and install one on the server. We set the
- concurrent user limit to 5 and so 5 of the 25 users can run it from the
- server at the same time. This has worked wonderfully and saved us lots of
- money at the same time. Since the application is also copy-prevented through
- the finder, we eliminate any temptation to "pirate" copies.
-