Licensing web applications [closed]

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If I want to sell a web application as an installable product on the customer's servers, what are the best method practices for enforcing licensing such that it's not easily ripped and pirated?

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asked Aug 11, 2009 at 13:51 jeffreyveon jeffreyveon 13.8k 18 18 gold badges 83 83 silver badges 137 137 bronze badges

Trust and offering installation support service, or even "drop in" servers pre-configured. You could put in phone-home capability (which they could block if they find out about it), or you could just charge site-wide. Putting effort into features and so on instead of protection is logical in my mind. Depends on the resources available to you really.

Commented Aug 11, 2009 at 13:58

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about licensing or legal issues, not programming or software development.