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[Peter Haworth]

That's exactly what I would like to see.  Unfortunately, it seems as  
if Revolution has moved away from license keys so I doubt it will  
happen.

Pete Haworth

On Nov 15, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> On 15/11/2010 20:37, Andre Garzia wrote:
>> (2) There is no way to distinguish your standalone running on your  
>> own
>> machine from your standalone running somewhere else. Any way to  
>> detect that
>> it is running on the same machine as the one used to develop the  
>> given
>> standalone will not be tamper proof. You can't trust any metric  
>> given by a
>> computer to identify itself. You can't trust MAC Addresses, HD  
>> Serial or CPU
>> Serial, all those can be spoofed.
>>
>
> That's right, you can't have a reliable check for the machine. But  
> what you can do, and I would argue you should do, is check for a  
> valid IDE license. So the rule could be:
>
> a standalone built with Personal Edition will check whether the  
> machine  has a valid licensed copy of the IDE on it
> If there is no IDE, then you get the 10 second start-up screen.
> If there is a valid IDE, you get no start-up screen (or maybe a 1- 
> second start-up)
>
> That way, anyone with the Personal Edition can build and run on  
> (all) their own machines without being bothered.
>
> -- Alex.
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