[ale] Open-source software license manager

George Carless kafka at antichri.st
Fri Jun 22 13:21:10 EDT 2007


I think you're going to have a hard time finding what you're 
looking for, simply because the kinds of developers who're 
typically building free software are unlikely to be wanting to help 
further the cause of non-free software!

Regards,
--George

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:07:49PM -0400, Jeffrey B. 
Layton wrote:
> George Carless wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >   
> >> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 09:16 -0400, George Carless wrote:
> >>     
> >>> (All of this talk of license management is oddly incongruous on ALE, btw...)
> >>>       
> >> Really?   (care to expand)
> >>     
> >
> > Well, license management typically implies restrictions on use which are 
> > antithetical to the nature of free software, right?  I can't imagine 
> > needing to "manage" GPL-licensed software in this respect, for example.
> >   
> After I sent the email, I immediately thought, "that sounds really
> stupid." But let me explain a bit further.
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with flexlm, a license manager
> that is used in a lot of ISV codes (typically engineer or scientific
> codes). Flexlm is a real pain in the butt to work with. I've had
> this tolerate-hate relationship with it from sometime.
> 
> So what I'm looking for is an open-source license manager that
> these ISV's can use in their closed code. (It does seem kind of
> strange, doesn't it?). The idea would be for ISV's to use this open
> source license manager in their proprietary codes. Since it's open
> source, we can identify and fix bugs rather then rely on a third
> party closed code where the owner isn't too concerned about
> improvements/bug fixes and the like - just making money (I can't
> fault them for wanting to keep their product and company alive
> but I am faulting them for having a crappy product and not responding
> to customers).
> 
> Does this explanation help? I know it still sounds weird though.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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