HELP needed: Tricks for licensing Python software

[Tim Roberts]

Pekka Niiranen <pekka.niiranen at wlanmail.com> wrote:

>Has anybody tried to implement license key
>for Python script in Windows ?
>
>For example, distributed Python program
>could be tied to the MAC address of the PC:
>Before program could be used, the user must
>give the MAC address of his PC that is used
>as seed for generating license key for the software.

This is so fraught with problems that I hope you discard it rather quickly.

* MAC addresses are reprogrammable on almost all net cards.

* My laptop has two NICs: one wired, one wireless.  My work PC has three.
Is your card smart enough to try all of them?

>I would hate to learn writing C extensions
>just for this. Any ideas ?

Yes.  Don't do it.
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