Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!bionet!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!FelineGrace
From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: copy protection
Message-ID: <38892@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 06:54:51 GMT
References: <14127@scorn.sco.COM> <90696@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
  <15702@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb4.095500.10722@robobar.co.uk>
Distribution: na
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 15

This question is about application licensing.  I am in the process of
planning a 35 node network with PCs running Sun PC-NFS.  One thing I
would really like to do is to  buy 5-10 copies of the popular PC
applications like Microsoft Word and Lotus 123.  I want to put just one
copy on the network server and let users download/execute the application
via PC-NFS.  The problem is with potential licet(n}it(cS~e violations.
Is there a way to enforce the maximum number of simultaneous users?
On Novell Networks there is a product that does this from Rainbow
Software.  But they don't have anything for Unix/TCP/IP networks.{_

Anybody know of a solution so I can satisfy the software license 
restrictions?

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com
o