title: Software protection and license management
body: <p>I have following requirements for selecting a license product for my software</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>.Net based</li>
  <li>License manager - Should be able to view and manage the customers interactively, automatically,e-commerce is not mandatory.  </li>
  <li>Good Customer support, examples and available source codes </li>
  <li>I may need to update the license monthly and exciting users should be able to get those
  from license server automatically (mandatory requirement, we control the customers like this)</li>
  <li>And Most importantly the price for my requirements</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Based on these requirements I have following options</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Software Key (<a href="http://www.softwarekey.com/protection-plus/5/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.softwarekey.com/protection-plus/5/</a>)</li>
  <li>CryptoLicensing For .Net(<a href="http://www.ssware.com/cryptolicensing/features_net.htm" rel="noreferrer">http://www.ssware.com/cryptolicensing/features_net.htm</a>) </li>
  <li>EZIRIZ(<a href="http://www.eziriz.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.eziriz.com/</a>) </li>
  <li>LicenseSpot (<a href="http://www.licensespot.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.licensespot.com/</a>)</li>
  <li>Eleckey 2.0 Internet Plus (<a href="http://www.sciensoft.com/products/eleckey/comparison.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.sciensoft.com/products/eleckey/comparison.html</a>)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Do you have any views or any more suggestions on this? What would you suggest?</p>
  
  <p>Edit</p>
  
  <p>I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2272184/good-commercial-third-party-tool-for-software-licensing">this link </a> for CryptoLicensing , <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2272184/good-commercial-third-party-tool-for-software-licensing">this one</a> for Eleckey 2.0 and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/423889/has-anybody-used-manco-net-licensing-for-net">this one</a> for manco.net. Any comments for other products?</p>