How to risk your project and your livelihood with sloppy licensing


 
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Old 07-09-2008
How to risk your project and your livelihood with sloppy licensing

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT
Recently the makers of the free-as-in-cost iPhone jailbreaking utility PwnageTool discovered that someone was reselling their creation -- without permission, under a new name, and for profit. That's a situation no software developer wants to be in, but the PwnageTool team was in an even tougher position because of the license under which it released its code. It didn't have one.


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dpkeyserv(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     dpkeyserv(1M)

NAME
dpkeyserv - Wnn6 license server SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/locale/ja/wnn/dpkeyserv [-f file] [-a file] [-l] [-L] DESCRIPTION
dpkeyserv controls licensing information on the Wnn6 Kana-Kanji conversion server jserver. dpkeyserv normally starts by /etc/rc2.d/S94Wnn6 on system startup. The licensing information is stored in /etc/lib/locale/ja/wnn/dpkeylist . OPTIONS
The following options can be specified. -f file Uses file as licensing information instead of the standard kpkeylist . -a file Uses file as access control file instead of the standard dpkeyallow . -l Stores the activity of dpkeyserv in the file specified with the environment variable DPKEY_LOGFILE. If this environment variable is not set, stores it in /var/locale/ja/wnn/log/dpkeyserv.log. -L Like the -l option, stores the activity of dpkeyserv. Also stores the dump of communication packets. FILES
/etc/lib/locale/ja/wnn/dpkeylist Licensing information file /etc/lib/locale/ja/wnn/dpkeyallow Access control file ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWjwnsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dpkeystat(1M) SunOS 5.10 10 Jan 2003 dpkeyserv(1M)