[news.eclipse.commercial] Re: protecting RCP

[Genady <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The question is - what do you protect? Your algorithms or your licensing 
scheme?

It is very difficult to properly protect Java applications.
Even using license checks in native code can be hacked.

Nevertheless, there are some obfuscation tools that will minimize risks.

Genady Beryozkin
http://www.genady.net/


glamakid wrote:
> Hello Team,
>    we have written an RCP using eclipse which has lot of patented and 
> secret algoritham. we would like to have licencing feature in RCP.
>
> Is there any good licencing mechanism availbale for RCP. we 
> implemented simple XOR algorigham and this algoritham checks the MAC 
> addres of the PC and then start the application. But problme is , user 
> decompiles the code and comment our function which does the validation 
> run the tool :(-
>
> Please give us a good method of licencing the tool. THank you very 
> much in advance.