RE: [PHP] Question on Commercial Offerings

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:michael@detroitmusic.com] > 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 > PHP Training Courses > 734-480-9961 > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >