Timeline for What is the best strategy for licensing a desktop application using a web service, when all I need to know is when people use the product?
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 7:55 | answer | added | AndrewJacksonZA | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 9:54 | comment | added | user470365 | Consider, does your cutomer want application that does not work if they cannot connect to your server? And if it works without, what happens if they block connection? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 7:37 | comment | added | MarkJ | There is licensing software out there. E.g. SafeNet Sentinel | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 0:42 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | @RobertHarvey according to Yannis, it's traditional to take other peoples comments and make an answer out of them to get the free rep, if you think it should be an answer go ahead and post it :P | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:49 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | @RobertHarvey Ugh, I hate writing answers when I don't know the topic inside and out. If nobody puts together something more comprehensive I'll move it to an answer later... | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:21 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @JimmyHoffa: The information in these comments looks good enough to be put into an actual answer. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:19 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | That said, the most common way to approach licensing like this is good old fashioned web app. That's one of the reasons they've become so prolific, you can charge for usage easily with full control over authorizing usage because the software may only be used by accessing your servers. If your app is WPF you might look at converting to SilverLight and hosting it so it forces them to authenticate before using the software. | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:16 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | You may wish to look into license management software, details about techniques and known software are here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_manager and you can google for more. Also read about floating licenses if you're unfamiliar with them, the common theme being a server exists to request a license from every time you use the software. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_licensing | |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:14 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited title |
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:10 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Nov 19, 2012 at 23:08 | history | asked | Kevin Quiring | CC BY-SA 3.0 |