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ActAnyware - Blockchain-Based Software Licensing Scheme

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Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2021)

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Software validation is a long battle between software developers and software pirates. License validation is proposed as the protection of both developer’s revenue and intellectual properties. However, as the license model becomes more complex alongside the constant changing of technology and the economic environment, a trusted and auditable software licensing validation method is required. In this paper, we briefly discuss the desirable characteristics of licensing validation method and how Blockchain can provide these desirable characteristics.

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Acknowledgments

This work (the authors from NUAA) is partially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFB1005900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62032025, 62071222, U20A201092), the National Key R&D Program of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2020B0101090002), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20200418).

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  1. DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Wei-Yang Chiu & Weizhi Meng

  2. College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, No. 29 Yudaojie, Nanjing, China

    Lu Zhou, Zhe Liu & Chunpeng Ge

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Chiu, WY., Zhou, L., Meng, W., Liu, Z., Ge, C. (2021). ActAnyware - Blockchain-Based Software Licensing Scheme. In: Dai, HN., Liu, X., Luo, D.X., Xiao, J., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1490. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7993-3_43

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