AW: serial numbers on standalones

[Phil Davis]

Hi Richmond,

On 3/26/13 3:38 AM, Richmond wrote:
> I am becoming increasingly in favour of hardware tethering of software 
> after trying to explain
> what a site licence is and ending up with zero comprehension as the 
> interlocutor cannot see why
> they shouldn't just duplicate the individually licensed executable 
> across as many machines as they require.
>
> The only problem (as was pointed out on this list) is that many 
> machines keep changing their Mac address
> and I am unaware of any other, more permanent, hardware feature 
> Livecode can grab hold of.

Another way to tie software (that you produce in LC) to hardware is to 
distribute it on a USB flash drive, and tie it to the unique ID in the 
flash drive's firmware. The flash drive effectively becomes a dongle and 
you tell the software not to run unless it sees that particular flash 
drive. It's not too hard.

-- 
Phil Davis