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Was the vendor's concern that a customer of yours could just pull your royalty-free license out of your uncompiled source and then gain access to their product without paying for a license? So, you would be distributing their registration key for free use with every purchase?

That sounds like a legitimate concern. If someone was distributing a valid registration key and fully-functioning application for one of our products (in exchange for a single royalty-free license), I'd give a blanket 'no' too.



Considering it's C#, and a "compiled" DLL is just preassembled bytecode anyways, I can't imagine it would be much more work to disassemble the DLL anyways...


...which likely explains the vendor's 'no' to a dll distribution as well.

Crappy to have happen to the author, but I can understand the vendor's decision in this particular risk/reward choice.


Especially if the vendor's library has a higher sale price than the submitter's app.




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