Re: How to stop library mde being reused

Hmm, yes, I spoted ion a later posting that mdb files are being distributed.
There probably isn't a lot to be done in stopping this happening in that
case, except making the library so specific to the application that it
ceases to be a generic library, rather as you suggest elsewhere in this
thread.


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Terry Kreft



"David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I'm taking it that your distributed apps are compiled to MDEs as
>> well as your library database
>
> Yes, but he already said that the client has the source code MDB and
> that the developer probably took a copy of that to figure out how to
> use his library. Using a GUID or any other form of validation simply
> won't work, as so soon as you can figure out what *does* work, you
> can write something to pass something valid to the MDE.
>
> I don't think there's any technical solution to this problem.
>
> There are only ethical/legal solutions.
>
> The client should fire the other developer if she won't stop
> stealing from the client's other developers.
>
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