Re: [sqr-users] Copy-Protecting SQRs

[Eric Dimick Eastman <erice@ontko.com>]

Eric,

What kind of copying are your worried about?  If it is "person A puts it on 
a shared drive for others in the company", license it to a company or 
department at a time.  If it is "person A posts it on the Internet", 
monitor Google periodically.

You might want to bury some identifying code in the program somewhere so 
that you could track the copying back to its source.  Of course anyone 
could change it, if they knew what and where it was.

If your programs are PeopleSoft specific, I wouldn't worry too much about 
it.  The companies that buy PeopleSoft are huge.  Why would they open 
themselves up to a lawsuit instead of paying your license fee?

Eric

EricRection@aol.com wrote:
> Comrades,
> 
> I've written a couple of SQRs I'd like to sell. PeopleSoft wasn't interested, 
> - the fools! -  even though one of the SQRs displays trees graphically, which 
> PeopleSoft hasn't been able to do (thus spake PeopleBooks: a "future version" 
> has an nVision report to print one just branch of a tree, otherwise you have 
> to use third-party software). I admit I got used to thinking of PeopleSoft as 
> The Enemty a while ago, so I'd like to market the SQRs either myself or 
> through a conslutancy.
> 
> The problem is protecting the SQRs against copying. I thought of doing an SQT 
> with PSOPTIONS.LICENSE_CODE hard-coded. But SQTs don't work at all on my 
> version of PeopleTools, per issue 717841 on Customer Connection. Worse, one 
>of the 
> SQRs is intended to be a nightly process, and SQTs don't work through Process 
> Scheduler on v8. And to top it off, the SQT is unlikely to work on a version 
> of SQR other than that on which it was compiled. - one SQRUG posting says it 
> definitely won't work, and another from Mistah Ontko hisself says it 'should' 
> work but to expect problems.
> 
> So I was wondering if there was some other method to safeguard the fruits of 
> my grey matter. Ideas, anyone?
> 
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