Architecture of the License Software Manager using Blockchain technology

The paper considers Blockchain technology and the possibility of its use to prevent software piracy.  There is proposed an approach using Blockchain technology.  An architecture of the License Software Manager has been developed using Blockchain technology.  The software code is available at https://github.com/maksym-demediuk-clicense/clicense.

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software product license
software product piracy
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