We have a small .Net program that we sell with individual licenses. The individual licenses are enforced by registering a key file that is generated using information from the machine used to install the program (MAC address, etc.)
Now, we have a customer request for a site-wide license, such that they can deploy to as many machines on their site as possible. From the technical POV I’m not sure what are the usual approaches for this; our old approach won’t work since we can’t map the license to any machine-specific information.
Any suggestions?
A few more details:
- the program is a client-side program that includes an Office Add-In
- the machines to be installed on may or may not have internet access
- we aren’t restricted to .Net-only approaches, I’m just looking for a general idea of how this sort of thing is usually handled