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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.Tanguy 0x7a69 inc. Programmer/President/CEO
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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.ICQ: 258-202-811 | Email: eric{at}bestxxxporn.comComment
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As mentioned several times, ZendGuard is a dumb idea. It won't even work with PHP>5.2, and it's very hackish, and easy to decrypt. ionCube takes a bit more work, but if you're trying to keep it your own intellectual property, your best bet, as mentioned, is to encode the licensing bit, and ensure it uses an external call to your own servers every so often for an update.
Sure, if it's as simple as a 'return true/false', it's not gonna be hard to mess with, but if you make it a bit more inline for functionality, it'll likely be worth their time to just buy it rather than steal it.Comment
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Agree with others above; if you want to secure it, offer it as a service from your own servers or through an API.
If you want people to install it on their side, don't encrypt it - it's not worth the hassle.
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no we don't ... my clients are banks and mainstream corp. that won't let their data pass through an other server than the one they give me access.
It's a 200k $ software that deal with test (which is oftenly confidential) data.
(It's more than 80 000 lines of code)
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