Are there any free good Software Licensing Tools

Question

1.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

I have developed a small Windows Desktop app i need to add license keys to it to prevent the "notgeeky user"from copying the software.All licensing softwares have a price tag to them.I dont have any money :( I developed the Winform App in c# Visual Studio 2013

If there aint any could you give me a blueprint for coding the licensing part of my software.I am completely dumb in this area!

Posted 14-Feb-15 7:11am

Rahul Anand Jha

Updated 14-Feb-15 7:15am

v3

Add a Solution

Comments

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-15 14:56pm

This is not really "licensing", this is copy protection. I must say, copy protection is supposed to come at considerable cost, for a fee. Why? Because it assumes commercial purpose.
—SA

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-02-14T09:01:00

Please see my comment to the question. To continue the logic: if you are looking for copy protection, your goals are commercial. If your goals are commercial, you are supposed to earn money. If you are supposed to earn money and use some other product to make this money, you are supposed to pay for this product. Isn't that logical?

Some people who can make money don't have money. But this is no different from any other kind of commercial investment. Monetary economics developed different mechanisms for business development in such cases. They are called "investment business" and "loans business". (Oh, be careful!)

One more thing you need to understand: any copy protection can be broken. This is just a matter of the cost of such non-legitimate operation. First of all, you need to think if your product is valuable enough to be protected.

—SA