License Verification

[gmoore]

And this is not a BIG deal. But it gives out my personal email account on the license verification. NORMALLY this isn't a good thing in my opinion. I would rather something less pointing at the same place my wife and kids email me to lol. Stops spam.

Greg

[john-doe]

Would you mind elaborate how this license verification works? I haven't used the engine myself but with a brief idea I might be able to add some suggestions.

[gmoore]

There is an option to prove *I* own the rights to use the NWE engine. It goes back to the host site and says "YEP VALID LICENSE" but it also says "LICENSED by [email protected]". Just a little annoyance, nothing more.

Greg

Edited January 7, 2013 by gmoore

[Someone]

http://www.nw-engine.com/verify.php?l=XXXXXXXXXX&sip=::1 Replace X with the first 10 digits of your license.

I too missed the part where it says that my email will be publicly available. I prob did not pay enough attention to notice it, and quite frankly I don't like it.

[Djkanna]

It probably shouldn't show that, especially if there's no warning beforehand.

However an email is just to easy to find elsewhere that personally I wouldn't fret about it.

[gmoore]

Well I have not posted it publically anywhere. I certainly have given it out though. I can also remove the link. I just want to bring it into the open for discussion etc.

Greg

[Djkanna]

That's fair enough, I was just giving my take on the situation.

[a_bertrand]

Beside the email is displayed as image and not as text (harder to harvest), I agree, it could lead to some privacy problems. Therefore I removed the display of the email.

[gmoore]

Maybe the persons name, or let us decide what we want to have there ... like a website name or something.

But you already took it off. :cool:

Greg

[Someone]

I suggest we get to set domain or ip addresses in our accounts. That will be shown as valid for.

[a_bertrand]

I have stored the IP on the server side, however ideally it should be linked to a domain.

[Someone]

I had actually not read the license agreement before now :o

Generous of you to not limit to 1 domain/ip + off-line(non public) development and testing versions.

What could happen is that anyone brought in to help on a game, could take the key, and use on their own site. Anyone doing such a thing would prob not have a "verify it" link on their site anyways. Perhaps we should see in our nw-engine account, where the license have been used. I know piracy cant be stopped, but at least they wont be running a valid license.

[gmoore]

Well Alain put this in for a reason. I just want him happy with it and my email not getting [email protected]. My wife shares my computer lol

I hope you understand.

Greg

[Uridium]

nice email addy ;) lol

[gmoore]

what is your goal? 1 per domain or 1 per 'me'?

Greg

[a_bertrand]

Indeed I wasn't thinking of limiting the number of sites / domain YOU could use with one license. I would have left to the owner of the site to decide if to buy one license for all or one for each. Yet I don't want that somebody buy once license and redistribute it to 100 other people. So for me it would be 1 license per user, where the user is either an individual or a team working on a common project (however in that case the people of the team should not have the right to re-use the license for than that particular project). I don't know if my idea is somewhat clear. That was also the reason why I was showing the email / name of the person which bought it, and not an IP or a domain.

[gmoore]

Oh you are fine with the license. My goal with even purchasing a licenses was to be part of the comunity. I already have over $100 in help, friiends and just cool people here. :p

Greg