License / Registration key enabled software
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Oct 2 21:06:46 EDT 2006
"T" <ty.2006 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159823579.917789.121910 at c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Oh man. This is going way off topic!!!
>
> I just wanted to know how license / registration key can be implemented
> in python. I was not interested in philosophical discussion of why /
> why not one should implement it, whether that business model make
> sense, instead using smartcards, etc. etc.
>
> I would like to satisfy technical / intellectual curiosity of how it is
> done in python -- so how about returning to the original topic of "How
> can license / registration key be implemented in python?"
I think the question is too broad. I suspect the broad answer "much the
same way as in any other language, with adjustments made for the
peculiarities of Python" will not satisfy you, but a more specific answer
requires a more specific question, such as "How can a read a printer port
dongle from Python and is there a cross-platform solution?"
Terry Jan Reedy
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