Help!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can any body tell me how to protect my WordPress plugin from being pirated. Any suggestion will be appreciated. I tried Googling it but still not satisfied with the result I have been getting. Most people are suggesting Obfuscating the code, which is another stress or work in supporting the users. All suggestion is/are welcome.

I feel you bro, I too am writing a plugin and tried to see how such can be easily safe-guarded sad thing is Wordpress is Open source so all codes are mostly accessible via ftp or even Wordpress Admin itself, the only way I can imagine is have some sort of api registration or have ur script contact ur api for permission and validating against a record. Am still searching on it besides I couldn't help notice the Sms on your signature I'm creating a plugin that integrates with SMS provider and can send but I don't have much SMS to test with, is there some kinda api u have and a way I can add yours to my plugin. Hit me back cuz am making good progress. But usually the Support is now the catch,create something free and keep providing support. That's the OSS way.

Sorry about the lack of punctuation, phone typing

talk2hb1: Help!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can any body tell me how to protect my WordPress plugin from being pirated. Any suggestion will be appreciated. I tried Googling it but still not satisfied with the result I have been getting. Most people are suggesting Obfuscating the code, which is another stress or work in supporting the users. All suggestion is/are welcome.

its open source. Why would you want to protect ur codes?? Isn't that against open source licensing and stuff??

that only applies to if you make a modification of WordPress then you are bound to release the code to WordPress but this is a plugin which basically allows you to implement your app or extend WordPress so its not really compulsory to make it free if you don't want to.

pc guru: that only applies to if you make a modification of WordPress then you are bound to release the code to WordPress but this is a plugin which basically allows you to implement your app or extend WordPress so its not really compulsory to make it free if you don't want to.

the GPL license says if you wanna release it, release with the source code

oh well i guess i should focus on the plugin then obfuscating it. i saw the license but mehn that stuff's long

That is the not the meaning of the license. What the license is saying is that if I am packaging my plugin or deploying it with WordPress my software or plugin must be free, not that I must give out my software that runs on open source or compatible with Open source must be free.
Lets assume I want to deploy an application for a client and I am going to use MySQL as the back-end server, is either I advise the user of my software to download MySQL separately if I am collecting money for the software or I package my software with MySQL free for the user, that is my software with MySQL. Please don't get it twisted Open source has come to stay. Do you know how much Red Hat is making from Red Hat Linux? Billions of Dollar.

talk2hb1: That is the not the meaning of the license. What the license is saying is that if I am packaging my plugin or deploying it with WordPress my software or plugin must be free, not that I must give out my software that runs on open source or compatible with Open source must be free.
Lets assume I want to deploy an application for a client and I am going to use MySQL as the back-end server, is either I advise the user of my software to download MySQL separately if I am collecting money for the software or I package my software with MySQL free for the user, that is my software with MySQL. Please don't get it twisted Open source has come to stay. Do you know how much Red Hat is making from Red Hat Linux? Billions of Dollar.

okay

@talk2hb i signed up for lagSMS i assumed there wud be an API, as am working on a plugin, how do i contact you.

pc guru: @talk2hb i signed up for lagSMS i assumed there wud be an API, as am working on a plugin, how do i contact you.

You can give a Call on 08064620491 But I still dont understand what API you want

by API i mean an interface for sending SMS from my application rather logging into lagSMS like via Curl,HTTP or the likes of a Web Service

You can mail me privately so we can talk. This is not an on-line talk mail me at talk2hb1[at]gmail[dot]com

This is not somtn secret, if ur offering an sms service on ur site and I don't want to come to ur site to send sms, maybe I develop a desktop app or web app where I want to send the sms from, u should b able to provide API for me to do that, so many sms service providers provide API.

mj: This is not somtn secret, if ur offering an sms service on ur site and I don't want to come to ur site to send sms, maybe I develop a desktop app or web app where I want to send the sms from, u should b able to provide API for me to do that, so many sms service providers provide API.

Yeah I know, but mj you understands better nah

Kill NuLLing first and have a goodnight sleep over yhur plugin...

codes are imprtant i feel you pls. Try installshield it should be able to give you any any you need to securing your plugin.