Guest Brivtech Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I'm considering using ioncube php encoder to encode an entire CC store. Within that code is a series of modifications to tweak the performance/functionaity to my customers' requirements. In most cases, I control the hosting, and customers don't need to access the source code, but in a few other cases, the customers insist that the code is dropped into their servers. Obviously I want to protect the modifications I have made to the code, and also the accelerated runtime performance interests me a lot, and some customer applications are quite intensive. So, there's 2 main reasons for wanting to do this: - Obfuscation of code in browser - Improved performance - There's also some other features of interest, such as locking files to specific IP addresses / server names These stores would include copyright removal keys, but I understand from the licensing that copyright must be left in the source code. I have no problem with that, but what happens when that source code becomes compiled, and the copyright information is no longer readable? Does this then become a copyright license violation? Technically the copyright is still there, but the point that it would be impossible to read it, apart from in the original pre-compiled files suggests it could be interpreted otherwise. If I have the pre-compiled filed on record, does this then satisfy the fact that the copyrights in the code are retained? Some further clarification please. :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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