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Re: Small Developer, Public Domain LM

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From: Chuck Royalty
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 19:33
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I am a big proponent of license management mechanisms which allow for tailoring
of policies.  I don't know of any public domain license managers.  But as a
user of some products which incorporate such managers in a large scale
environment, I would like to say that the proliferation of different types of
license managers (different interfaces, don't work together, don't log data
consistently, don't support similar policies the same way, etc.) is making life
quite difficult for me.  Whenever I get the opportunity I push, not only for
reasonable, flexible policies, but for consistency across the implementations.

Please at least keep it in the back of your mind when implementing such things
in your applications.  Some of us care almost as much about how it's done as
about the fact that it's done at all.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!bcstec!royalty
From: royalty@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Chuck Royalty)
Newsgroups: comp.software.licensing
Subject: Re: Small Developer, Public Domain LM
Summary: Diversity of license management utilities is a problem
Message-ID: <3802@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:33:32 GMT
References: <1992Oct6.144040.5288@news.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle
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