Recently I heard Hex-rays will not sell named licenses to company users. Instead, they need to buy computer license. According to the rules:
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Licensed to a specific machine, as many local users as one wants, provided only one of them uses the software at any given time.
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However I want to know how they do this. I have a few possible ideas:
- collect hardware info when you buy it, and send it to Hex-rays for a license
- run the IDA with some "locked" license, the IDA will collect those hardware info, and "activate" the license
- send some broadcast messages, and frequently do check to Hex-rays servers to ensure only one copy with one computer ID is running at the same time
I have no computer licenses, and I can not get any binary, so I do not have any clues about if they used any of those 3 ideas, or they used neither. I just want to know how they managed to do this, so maybe I and my friends can use IDA happily again.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.