How to - Maya plugin licensing mechanism?

[talk2rene]

Hello, I have written a Maya plugin that I would like to protect with a simple Licensing Mechanism. However I am not terribly familiar with this domain. Hence...

• It would be great to get some pointers or any other helpful information that would guide me in writing my own implementation.
• And on a side note... does the Maya C++ API provide any access to the Maya CutId or to the Maya licensing details so that they could be used to piggyback a Maya plugin licensing mechanism?

Many thanks! Kind regards, -Rene

[stuzzz]

The Answer would be quite long.

Please send me a pm so I can explain my method.

But to be short, I believe that Maya does not provide such ID. You may use plateform like Gumroad to have such data and verifiy the activation properly.

[talk2rene]

In another thread Negow suggested an off the shelf product called limelm (https://wyday.com/limelm/)

With regard to off the realm of shelf License Managers, does anybody else have any other suggestions or informative feedback? I am trying to get a sense of the LM landscape out there, what works for people and what does not. 

Pointers to other threads or forums on this LM topic (off the shelf or/and opensource) would be welcome too.

Many thanks! -Rene

[talk2rene]

Oops... that sentence got garbled... replay... "With regard to the realm of off the shelf License Managers..."