licensing - How to license a sharepoint solution? -
Suppose you have created a SharePoint solution - a webpart, a feature for a list template, whatever - a Is planning to sell as a product.
How would you manage the licensing of your solution?
I'm looking for some input in at least the following areas:
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Code-wise:
1.1. Where do you keep the license yourself? Somewhere as a file? (Then what happens in the fields?) As the property in the farm property bag?
1.2. Do you implement "Home-Calling" - where your solution verifies the license against your company's servers every time?
1.3. Any other great practice in this area will be welcome ...
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Businessman Intelligent: Per User - How Do You License? Per server? Per instance (in case of webparts or list templates)?
Thank you.
I can tell you what we do:
- We have a separate form solution that handles test / registration support for all of our products
- We have a page to enter the license key under the page of the Central Admin solution.
- We can know the number of front-end fields in the code, at the end of the front-end of the code.
- All products have a product name and the only encryption with license key product name. The test support solution handles key verification.
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