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Could an individual of ill-repute freely download the source containing the EE and edit it to turn off checks for KEYGEN_EDITION and KEYFEN_MODE? Obviously you have license protection against them redistributing the modified version but would anything practical prevent them from running it themselves?

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It'd be a violation of the license terms. Other than that, I may send Liam Neeson after them. :)

His very specific set of skills is hunting down license term violators

>...but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career.

Almost all software company revenues come from business customers who are too big to mess with stuff like this.

This. We have a few different things at work where it would be trivial for me to modify the database to allow unlimited users or grant access we don't pay for, but it'd be mostly pointless.

> but would anything practical

But would be it practical to go for a such guy?

There are always... stupid people who use hacked software 'because the employer don't have money', but I guess someone with a skill enough to read and patch such code is fully aware how the things are working and wouldn't be doing such stupid deeds.

Yes, and most places that do this (e.g. OpenProject) don't have licenses preventing this, so I have deployed, and shimmed out the enterprise blockers, many Foss sass tools.

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