SAN JOSE, Calif. — An online EDA discussion group is circulating tips on how to get free software by illegally cracking FlexLM license managers, EE Times has learned. The group has come to the attention of EDA activist John Cooley, who says he'll reactivate his 'Stealthnet' mailing list to warn EDA vendors about the potential thefts.

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FlexLM, from Globetrotter Software, is used by nearly all EDA vendors to manage a variety of licensing schemes. Although it's not positioned as a security system, many vendors rely on FlexLM to protect their software from piracy. But FlexLM has been attacked by hackers in the past, prompting Cooley to launch Stealthnet in 1999, a private mailing list for EDA vendor representatives to share information about hacking activity. The latest attacks come from a discussion group that Cooley has declined to publicly identify, on the grounds that anyone who finds it will have immediate access to a lot of illegal software. Veeam Keygen Software. Numerous postings, some confirmed by EE Times, share tips on how to crack FlexLM or point to Web sites containing code for breaking licenses on specific EDA products. 'Basically, these guys are doing things like downloading evaluation copies of [Model Technology] ModelSim and cracking licenses,' Cooley said. 'They have no intention of buying it.'

While some participants in the discussion group are apparently from China — where software theft is rampant — others appear to be from established U.S. Math Board Game Names Netlab Windows 7. here. Or European companies like AMD and Infineon, Cooley noted. One individual, using an anonymous Yahoo address, boasted of hacking FlexLM licenses on products from Altera, Novas, Exemplar, Agilent EEsof, Innoveda, Synopsys and Avanti, among others. This individual offered to help readers crack licenses for other tools as well.