[geeks] Maya news

[Mike Hebel]

JDB> On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:52:55PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, James Sharp wrote:
>> 
>> > So who wants to chip in and buy a copy?  Or does it use some stupid
>> > nodelocked license?
>> 
>> It uses FlexLM, which is even nodelocked under Windows.
>> 
>> ..uhm, that is unless you have a "compromised" FlexLM daemon.

JDB> What would happen if something was tried with a floating license?  It is only
JDB> a few hundred more, I think.

It doesn't work that way - unfortunately.  What a floating license
does is bind itself to the CPUID of the server and then allow only a
certain number of connections to the flexlm daemon.  If there aren't
enough connections then someone can't start up the program.  PTC
Pro/Engineer is this way as are other things.

What I'd like to see a good way of doing is faking
CPUID/HOSTID/MACADDR - that would help.  I know there was a project
for this at one time but I'll be damn if I can't dig up the link right
now.

Mike Hebel                        mailto:nimitz at owc.net