How To License A Program?

MonzterSlayer · Mar 23, 2018

Greetings family,

Trust me...I have Googled this question in as many different ways I could imagine, and I have not found an answer!

Does anyone know of any resources which talk or teach about how to license a program (license keys)?

I'm currently working on a JavaScript/HTML/CSS Program, and I'm completely stuck with the licensing part and have not found any sources which give useful information to solve my issue.

Thanks in advance, you all are amazing people, and I wish the best for you

healzer · Mar 23, 2018

You can't license a web app.
You can however lock it up behind a membership portal.
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Unless, and this is a clumsy way, is to develop a desktop application that uses a headless browser in Java/C#/whatever that shows your HTML website. And then add a licensing layer on top of the actual desktop software.

My two cents: learn how to program properly and know the difference between a desktop app & web app, only then think about selling something.

dslrentals_team · May 3, 2018

Which program are you using?

Gogol · May 3, 2018

Are you using any server logic for ur app? If yes, then make the app api based. If a license key is not valid, don't return anything from server.

If you have a product that just uses js/HTML/CSS, it is pretty hard to lock it.

0x29a · May 10, 2018

As others mentioned, you can ether use the API approach (safe and proper way) or add the logic for the licensing inside the JavaScript and obfuscate it (not the best approach).

Please note: Never rely on a client side security, it can be easily bypassed.

sanuy · Jun 1, 2018

MonzterSlayer said:
Greetings family,

Trust me...I have Googled this question in as many different ways I could imagine, and I have not found an answer!

Does anyone know of any resources which talk or teach about how to license a program (license keys)?

I'm currently working on a JavaScript/HTML/CSS Program, and I'm completely stuck with the licensing part and have not found any sources which give useful information to solve my issue.

Thanks in advance, you all are amazing people, and I wish the best for you

What you have is not really "a program" (as in software application) is a presentation model. You can license it the same way you would do a jpeg image - hire plenty of lawyers.

Nura213 · Jun 4, 2018

i think you can use ioncube to protect your script/program
last time i checked it had a encrypting function for the files & php
also i think you can use the API to check & validate lisences

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