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Ask HN: What is your offline license activation system?

2 points by textman ↗ HN
Looking for a low resource solution. Maybe a license file that has machine ID information, which I think is common. Reason for my question: Some customers say they need this because they want to install on a datacenter without internet.

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kticoder
It depends a lot on which language you want to do it with. You're going the right way. You have to keep a file with the information of the computer beforehand
textman
Dont need code, just looking for overall strategy. while I never liked the idea of hardware locked activation, I dont see a viable alternative but would be great if there is one.