Re: Licensing software

Posted in 1998

Jonathan Leffler — Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:32:27 -0700 (PDT) — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Candy McCall wrote: > When installing our 4gl application, our users have > been on the honor system as far as how many users > they have using our application. Now, we see the > need to restrict the number of users on our application. > Does anyone know of any licensing software that > can accomplish this or have a method of doing this? Elan have a licence system, I think, and I believe it is used by Sun for their C compiler, amongst others. Not sure of the URL. Also, D4GL is rather effective at counting concurrent users, and it does not allow more than the licenced number of users to be running at one time. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn