Quote:
Originally Posted by myneid
its not about disabling anything, its about having it there.
or just encode the license part of it. use ioncube
personally i dont sell software, so maybe i have a skewed view, but hte only way you can protect your source is by selling it as a servivce and hosting it yourself.
when i come across small softwares that are encoded, my initial reaction is always that its encoded so that people cannot see how poorly it is coded and all the security holes.
of course thats not true in most cases, but a lot of people get that feeling.
i prefer to be open about everything.
|
What he said
Except I would argue that software being fucking nasty, full of security holes, and full of bugs is probably true for about 95% of what's out there...
I would never buy a web "application" that was closed source... ever...
And what do you care if they modify it? That just means you no longer have to support it...
I can understand wanting to prevent it from being copied... but honestly... the only real way is to host it yourself and sell it as a service; or charge monthly for support or something. That model works for MySQL, various Linux distros, and everyone else open source; I think it should be able to work for your app.