Re: Licensing of stored procedures

Richard Brandl wrote:
>
> I am developing stored procedures to be delivered to customers. To avoid
> free distributing I would like to embed some sort of license to prevent
> users to use the procedures after a certain date or to allow users to use
> the procedure only x times. I imagine an algorithm of a self-modifying
> procedure.
> Any ideas ?
> Response please directly to
> richard_brandl_at_kybernon.com

For "certain date", simply put in the first part of your code to check if the date is past the appropriate threshold - and raise an application error if this happens. Of course, you will need to "wrap" your source so the users can't tweak it...

Cheers

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