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Lord_Zero on Nov 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I think I need to go lie down

What does a licensing server do?

ed on Nov 17, 2023 [–]

Mostly it generates a key that users can paste into an application.

It also implements

- Stripe payments

- “Sign in with GitHub”

- JSON API to validate keys

This is nice because it means you don’t need a user system in your app. Users just paste a key, and the app validates it on startup.

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