Questions re. unlimited license Created Sep 9, 2010

We will provide you the code to be used for generating the license key. It will be available right after you have purchased the license. The example is a pice of Java code but it looks the same also in PHP.

The unlimitied player version now also works also when the player SWF is loaded from the domain that you specify when you purchase. So the same player version works both with the licence key algorithm and also without the key when the SWF is loaded from the domain that you specify when you purchase.

I think the approach you describe will also work. The installer contacts your server that generates the key for the specified domain. If you are using some kind of a installer program, that installer could also generate the key avoiding any server queries.

Just post here if you have any more questions. I'm now following this thread.

I imagine we would keep the license-generating code on our remote server to prevent people just spouting off as many licenses as they wanted.

Please allow me to explain how our software works just to be 100% clear!

It's completely hosted on our clients server - they have their own copy of FlowPlayer and upload it themselves. We have a PHP-based installer which, as I said, will contact our remote server providing their domain name and generate them a license key, and save that into their database.

Then when Flowplayer is called (It's generated with PHP), their license key will be embedded in there.

So I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by saying the SWF is loaded 'from the domain you specify when you purchase', because as I said, I won't ever be reporting back to you guys what domains are in use and nothing would be loaded from our own domain (Except, of course, our own copy!).

Is that approach workable or do we need to change something in it?

Thanks very much from your time - really appreciate you getting back to us!

If this is a software package that your end user installs in their own web server, i would make the sotfware itself generate the license keys. So whenever flowplayer is requested you will generate the key, you know the domain name where the requests comes in an based on this you will be able to generate the license key.

The domain locked approach is designed for scenarios when the player SWF is always loaded from one specific domain. In your case it sounds like this would not be how things are setup. Your clients will have the unlimited player SWF loaded from their own domains. So you can forget this approach.

If you have PHP logic to generate the flowplayer embed code you can also make this code to generate the license key! The key generation algorighm just needs the domain name as input (plus something else that will be provided to you).

Of course if you want to prevent your clients from installing too may copies you need something more. In this case it makes sense if the installer contacts your license server to supply they key.

Alright, thanks very much for explaining everything. We'll pick one of those approaches once we've purchased.

Thanks again!