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Re: bundling software with TSVN?

From: Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:10:14 -0200

Steven Higgan escribió:
> Another thing, seriously look at 'Professional' vs 'Home' use licences - and enforce them via licence keys. Create a library that handles the licensing (obviously licence it in such a way that I cant pull the code and make my own key-gen) and delegate to that library for checking | enforcement.
>
> If a 'Professional' licence is only valid for 1.6.* versions then they don't get to upgrade to 1.7.* -
> Another way 'Professional' licences get as many upgrades that their 'subscription' allows them for, make their subscription a year long.
> You could also do something with 'seat licence' a corporate can buy a year long subscription for 50 users - enforce that by an online activation | enforcement process.

Seems kinda impossible due to licensing. Even if you make the license
key library closed-source, I could modify TSVN code so it doesn't even
load the library.

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