Open License Manager
A license manager written in C/C++ for Windows and Linux environments.
It allows to protect the software you develop from unauthorized copies, limit the usage in time, to a specific set of machines, or prevent the usage in virtualized environments. It is an Open License Manager that helps to keep your software closed ;-)
The software is made by 2 main sub-components:
- a C library with no (or minimal) external dependencies (the part you have to integrate in your software).
- a license generator written in C++ (allows you to generate a license).
these modules are planned....
- a license backoffice in php (in order to handle multiple licenses).
- a license debugger to be sent to the final customer when there are licensing problems.
- a log descriptor in order to decrypt logs generated by the license system.
You can notice 2 more sub-projects:
- bootstrap: allows to generate private keys and modify the library on the fly after the downloading.
- testing : runs the tests (and publish the results on cdash)
Licensing
The project comes out with a very large freedom of use for everyone (and it will always be). It uses a BSD 3 clauses licensing schema.
How to build
prerequisites
GCC (Linux), MINGW or MSVC (Windows) cmake, boost, openssl (Linux/MINGW)
git clone https://github.com/open-license-manager/open-license-manager.git
cd open-license-manager/
mkdir build
cd build
on Linux
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install
make
make install
on Windows (with MSVC 2015)
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install
cmake --build . --target install --config Release
cross compile with MINGW on Linux
x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install
make
make install
How to test
on Linux
make test
on Windows (MSVC)
ctest -C Release
How to use
This simple example shows how to integrate open-licence-manager into your project
$ cd example
$ cmake .
$ make
$ ./example
license ERROR :
license file not found
the pc signature is :
Jaaa-aaaa-MG9F-ZhBB
$ ../install/bin/license_generator example -s Jaaa-aaaa-MG9F-ZhBB -o example.lic
$ ./example
licence OK