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Code Protector Software Development Kit A tool kit that will allow software developers to protect their software from reverse engineering, a common form of piracy. SLP Server A server that will manage the licensing issues and product keys for software vendors. SLP Online Service A InishTech hosted solution for license management.
The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to install the program and the user's computer hardware to Microsoft, inhibiting or completely preventing the use of the program until the validity of its license is confirmed. [1]
Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software to stop blocking its use.
The Shared Source Initiative (SSI) is a source-available software licensing scheme launched by Microsoft in May 2001. [1] The program includes a spectrum of technologies and licenses, and most of its source code offerings are available for download after eligibility criteria are met.
Software asset management is a comprehensive strategy that has to be addressed from top to bottom in an organization to be effective, to minimize risk. A software compliance audit is an important sub-set of software asset management and is covered in the above referenced standards. At its simplest it involves the following:
An early example of an open-source project that did successfully re-license for license compatibility reasons is the Mozilla project and their Firefox browser. The source code of Netscape's Communicator 4.0 browser was originally released in 1998 under the Netscape Public License/Mozilla Public License [6] but was criticised by the FSF and OSI for being incompatible.
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.
The Reprise License Manager (RLM) is the software licensing toolkit developed and marketed by Reprise Software, providing on-premises and cloud-based license management, license enforcement and product activation solutions for publishers of commercial software applications. The Reprise License Manager is used by over 800 Independent Software ...