Re: How to generate a Windows style license key

tomstdenis@gmail.com wrote:
> The point of license keys is not to say "you can NEVER break in" it's
> to make it clear "this is not free".
...
> Will this stop people from stealing your app? Absolutely not.
>
> Is it enough to argue in court that it wasn't reasonable to assume it's
> free? Yes.

Nonsense. Copyright law is clear: If it has a copyright notice (not to
mention the click-through EULAs every software package has now), it's
yours, and people have to be licensed by you to do anything with it
that isn't covered under fair use rights. No 'enter this license key to
prove you know this isn't yours' nonsense is required.

Going by your reasoning, I could copy as many audio CDs as I want, then
when taken to court over it claim "I didn't know it wasn't free,
because I didn't have to enter a license key!"
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:58:05 2005