How to protect my joomla custom component with serial? I would like to be able to sell it, and use some sort of license key or similar. Can anyone tell me what sort of options I have?
Thanks.
A:
As PHP cannot be distributed in a compiled version (as windows is), you will need to hide your code in order to enforce the activation measures you implemented.
Some Components add a meta-Tag to the headers that contain a serial number, so that you could verify if the site that is using your component is coming from the client you'd expect.
giraff
2010-01-16 16:19:21
A:
You can encode it but then it would violated Joomla's GPL license. Joomla gave you the code freely so you are obligated to do the same.
Donna Vincent
2010-02-08 02:34:31