and not to mention that almost any form of script protection
or source-code encryption can be broken with minimal effort...
you'd probably be wasting valuble time trying to protect your
scripts that you could better spend improving and maintaining
the code.
IMO: it's better to spend your time working on the script
itself rather than hiding the source code... you'll come out
with a better product in the long run - even if the occasional
person can duplicate your source for devious purposes. :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kimsal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:43 PM
> To: Thomas Deliduka
> Cc: PHP List
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Question on Commercial Offerings
>
>
> Thomas Deliduka wrote:
>
> >I don't know quite how to word that subject but here's what we want to do.
> >
> >We have a shopping cart softwre (like a million others out there) which
> >based in windows NT with a COM+ object to guard the source code.
> >
> >We mainly offer this product to our hosting customers as an add-on solution
> >to their hosting.
> >
> >Well, we want to migrate this to PHP/MySQL and I don't know how to protect
> >the source code. My boss is suggesting to make a DSO but I really am not a C
> >programmer to do all that. I want to make it all in PHP but somehow protect
> >the code. Any ideas?
> >
>
> We're in a similar situation, but probably will simply give the source
> code with what we sell,
> and have purchasers agree to a moderately restrictive license. They
> will have the source code if
> they need to make changes for their own projects, but won't be able to
> resell/redistribute. Giving
> people access to the source code can actually be a positive to some
> people. Yes, you may lose
> some potential sales, but you'll gain sales to people coming over from
> more restrictive carts - the kind
> where you don't get the source code. :)
>
> HTH
>
> Michael Kimsal
> http://www.tapinternet.com/php
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> 734-480-9961
>
>
>
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