Software design question/registration
 

I am going to license a piece of software and sell it offline packaged and on a cd. Is there a way to "register" the software so that I can see how many installs it has without having to complicate the duplication/packaging process and include a unique serial with each unit.

You could base it on a combination of identifiers based on the machine it is installed on, something like an md5 checksum of the hard drive serial number, and modem / lan MAC address. It would be flawed when they change hardware and reinstalled, but other then that, i can't think of any other ways to do it off hand.

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