Admin screen shows the machine fingerprint to send for a licence key,
installs a pasted key, and lists connected stations. A persistent banner
warns all users during the grace period.
The browser sends the station heartbeat rather than the bridge, because
the bridge deliberately has no dependency on Django; it already talks to
both. Two tabs on one station share a slot, and a station reconnecting
at the limit reclaims its own slot so a brief drop cannot lock it out
behind its own expiring registration.
license_tool.py is the only thing that can sign a licence - the
application can only verify. The private key it generates is gitignored
and must never ship: if it leaks every licence becomes forgeable, and it
cannot be rotated without reissuing to every customer, since the public
key is compiled into shipped binaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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