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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:32:06 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jhs@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, commercial@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Licensing Software 
Message-ID:  <12851.843705126@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:29:34 PDT." <199609252329.QAA06982@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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> There is inherent locality associated with the license server.
> 
> I can reuse a license in your scenario if I can make equiavelent
> servers -- the same license may be checked out from both simultaneously.

Piddle and tosh.  It's an easy thing to make a license manager check
for duplicates and either work cooperatively or shut down again.

This also assumes that your LM also doesn't require an admin password
on startup - another way of making sure unauthorized types don't start
their own copies.  This is a non-problem.

					Jordan



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