Licensing
- Thread starter Kalani
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Do you mean licensing an application that you've created?
You choose a license (if going open source), or create one (if you intend to sell it), and include it in the application usually as a readme.txt, inside the application (in like a help window), or displaying a license agreement before the install of the application (if your application is installable) that they must accept.
As for preventing piracy of a for-sale application...well that's a very large issue and a very difficult one to bypass.
You choose a license (if going open source), or create one (if you intend to sell it), and include it in the application usually as a readme.txt, inside the application (in like a help window), or displaying a license agreement before the install of the application (if your application is installable) that they must accept.
As for preventing piracy of a for-sale application...well that's a very large issue and a very difficult one to bypass.
I want to have a 25 Character license key for Beta's. and something to as a online "Donate' that intergrates with PayPal that will give a 'thanks for donating' and a few extra features.
Ah so actually generating a license key and such.
Lots of different ways to do that man - you'll need to research on how you would like to approach it. I've made a simple one before that uses the computer's MAC address to generate a license key for the system, and then it uses that to verify on startup. I need to refactor / rebuild it though, because I didn't build it all that great (knowing what I know now about encryption and such).
Lots of different ways to do that man - you'll need to research on how you would like to approach it. I've made a simple one before that uses the computer's MAC address to generate a license key for the system, and then it uses that to verify on startup. I need to refactor / rebuild it though, because I didn't build it all that great (knowing what I know now about encryption and such).
What about registry keys? You mean storing the license in the registry? Doesn't really matter...your biggest issue is creating a fairly secure license key in the first place that isn't easily broken.
A remote or a local database? If a local one...you'd have to encrypt it so the user couldn't just modify the database. If a remote one...you'd have to have your application be an "online required" kind of application where it can verify the license either on startup, or periodically with a background service.
