I’ve been planning for long to start licensing and sort of encrypting some part of the scripts to the clients who don’t pay advance (or even then for a few, from whom I fear a charge back) but never did it till now.
I’ve been working on a project day and night for last couple of days and today the client told me that I have to submit him the code and he will pay me some time later. Asking for an extra favor to be precise.
Well, I can’t say No (I tried to though) but as I have already completed the code so I had to agree. But today I thought of licensing this wordpress plugin I was working on.
I coded a system of checking license and responding with a csv value to the checking script. Rest of the action takes place at that scripts end.
From thinking about coding it and to the end, it took me almost 3-4 hours only and I was wondering why didn’t I ever think about doing it before!
I will be making it more “distributable” soon and will give out to all you guys too so that you can license your scripts (probably for a small fee :) )
Do you currently use any techniques? Other than licensing I also obfuscated and had some common encryption applied to it too.