How To License A Script

[private_guy]

Hi there,

 

I have just made my first new professional uploading script and I have encoded parts of it but now I want to know how to license the script. So if they enter the correct license, it removes copyright. The copyright is in ProcessCopyright .

I'm really new at licenses so you will have to help me from the bottom

 

Thanks very much for your help.

 

Best Regards,

Private_Guy

[lightningstrike]

I recommend a third-party paid piece of software built for handling this type of thing such as Ioncube or Zend's encoder which handle the code through their own loading software.

 

Otherwise you would be looking at a potentially easy script to bypass.

[Warptweet]

A nice way would maybe try storing a text file on your own website server containing all possible license keys, in a secret location. Then, when your customers download the program and use it, they can go onto their admin panel and attempt to put in their license key. The PHP can read the contents of your secret file, and if what they entered are any of the valid license keys, activate it by removing the copyright.

 

Although, it's always easily possible to remove the text "Copyright by _ _ _ _ _ _ _" manually from the html or php. No matter where you put it, they can always hit ctrl-F and find the copyright text, and delete it. Whilst they can always find it themselves, a nice trick to conceal it from ctrl-F would maybe try doing this:

 

echo "c";
echo "op";
echo "y";
echo "ri";
echo "ght";

 

That way, it will appear the same, but on the control file, it wont appear on the ctrl-F method of manually removing the copyright.