Hi
I have an idea for a library that I think has potential for monetization and I’m in need of some advise. My main queries revolve around implementing licensing. Should I develop my own system for generating and validating license keys within the code, or are there existing tools I should consider? Also, I’m looking into a way to cap the number of users, like ensuring only five developers use it within a 5 seat purchase instead of 500. Do I need to create my own API or a simpler method to monitor and manage these user seats?
As a C# developer, my initial implementation will be in this language. However, I aim to make this functionality accessible to other programming stacks too. Is there a feasible way to extend this to languages like Python and Java without completely recoding everything? Perhaps a wrapper around the existing DLL?
Any insights or experiences you can share would be immensely helpful. Thanks.
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This is a legal problem more than a technical problem.
Any protection you implement will allmost certanly be trivial to break or get around.
Just tell people they have to pay to use your library.
As to your second question.
I used (and payed for) a library that used your planned solution.
It was a c# library to to manipulate flash/swf files (~20 years ago) it shipped with python and java wrappers, but those only worked on windows. If you go this route try to build for dotnet on linux too.
Good luck