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Licensing model inquiry (not directly accosiated with Flow) Created Apr 12, 2009

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Andria

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Licensing model inquiry (not directly accosiated with Flow)

Posted: Apr 12, 2009

Please excuse me, that my topic is not directly associated with Flow.

Currently I am developing a project which I will be licensing to be used with one domain at the time. Similar to the licensing model of commercial version of flow player.

What I have seen from flow's commercial version is that it uses a license key in conjunction with the domain on which it is running.

And this is exactly what I am looking for to protect my own work! I need a script which would make a simple query whether the domain which is running my product is entitled to do so, or not. I don't know if flow player is "calling home" or not, but I expect it not to be doing something like that and I also would not want my product to call home and check each time if the license and domain in question are ok or not.

Is anyone here who could offer such solution to me as a service of his own or be so kind and point me to other services or resources where I could find the solution I am looking for?

Let me say that I don't demand high security. If someone was to invest his whole day and break it, then I would have to live with that. All I am looking for is rather low security product which an advanced user or an average webdesigner would not figure out in a matter of minutes. If you offer a system which is much harder to hack, even better!

I am not looking into buying such solution package, I want to license it per copy sold. What I am looking for is 500+ licenses sold per year.

Thank you!

Tom
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Mar 28, 2009

» Licensing model inquiry (not directly accosiated with Flow)

Posted: Apr 14, 2009

Reply to: Licensing model inquiry (not directly accosiated with Flow), from Andria
I presume you can code, if your developing a project?

Well on a very basic level you could make a function within your script which checks an external XML files (on your server) pretty much like RSS. If it fails to validate the script could cut and prevent use or force a reciprocal link depending on what you want.

You could choose for it to only check upon install, or perhaps at set intervals. Depends on how advanced your going to get.

To prevent people simply taking this code out, you could then encrypt it with something like IonCube -http://www.ioncube.com/

Doing this will impose a further requirement on someone's hosting though. IE they will need to have their host allow the php ioncube extension.

I guess you must be offering something special? Personally I tend to stick with open source because then I'm able to do as I please with the code for me own use and depending on the licence for others to use also.

The majority of open source is also free which is cool. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying for something but it has to offer something real special which I aint getting anywhere else and I have to be able to own it.