Brian;
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>No problem - it took me some figuring to work this out, too.
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>When you buy the 50 server license, it's for distribution only - so the client does NOT end up with the West-Wind framework - just the runtime.
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>There's no client registration involved - you need to keep track of it yourself, and buy more licensing when you've sold 50 copies of your app. Being a developer yourself, I'm sure you're sensitive to the importance of being honest with this count - especially when the cost of doing so is this reasonable <g>!


I agree 100%, especially if the day ever comes that I can find 50 buyers!! :)


When a client stops leasing your app, you'll want some mechanism in place to assure yourself that they're no longer using it (for your own benefit) - so then you've freed that license. Perhaps their server needs to hit your server annually for confirmation, or maybe you send them an encrypted floppy to activate it for another year. So long as they can't defeat it by setting back their server's clock - right?


Yeah, I'm still muddling around with this idea. I've heard that it's getting tougher to enforce lease/subscription terminations due to fair use. If the client leases the app for a year, has all of their data in it, but then doesn't want to renew, you can't just shut them down. I was thinking of something like 'read-only' mode, so they can still "access" their info, but really, who's to say even that type of restriction is allowed... What can one do?... Well I guess that's a whole other discussion.


Thanks again,

- Brian