[Info-vax] LMF Licence Generator Code

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 7:30:42 PM UTC+12, PoBe wrote:
> So a far out guess; the time is converted to numeric time elements (e.g $numtim)
> like yyyy,mm and dd. These are concatenated/summed up in some way and then
> CRC:ed as another license attribute. 
> But the error message could also be the result of an initial time string syntax check
> and the time value could be whatever. Good luck :-) 

Thanks for the thoughts. Not to mention that I could have been making an off-by-one error in counting the days in my experiments. Too many variables, when all the LMFGEN oracle will tell me is “yes” or “no”. ;)

> why did the people that created the pakgen.c did not do VERSION and RELEASE_DATE etc? 
> They put in a fair effort to crack everything (hard) so doing VERSION etc. must have
> been right at their fingers.

My guess is they felt no need for time-limited or machine-limited licences. Myself, I am only trying to put these in for completeness. ;)