BEZERRA, T. R.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5285201763618981; BEZERRA, Tárcio Rodrigues.
Resumo:
Piracy is one of the biggest problems that the software industry faces nowadays.
One fact that turns the illegal appropriation of software so frequent and attractive is
that there is no loss of quality in the digital copy process. Digital copies are as good
as their original counterparts.
License management services are getting increasingly more importance among the
solutions to this problem. These services verify if a given application is in
accordance with the revenue agreements (i.e., it is not an illegal copy). However,
the inclusion of license management in a computing environment creates a number
of additional technical support tasks. Moreover, license managers demand the
maintenance of technical support staff by the developers'-companies to interact with
customers, and executing tasks such as generating software keys based on
customers' environment information and re-configuring license policies. This is not
suitable for small companies structures that produces shrink-wrap software
packages.
In this work, we présent Bouncer, a fault-tolerant, self-configurable and suport-free
licensing solution. These characteristics make Bouncer a feasible candidate for the
shrink-wrap software packages licensing market.