Alan, what you're talking about there, makes a lot of sense. I've heard of the Zend Encoder (your blog and all, love it by the way) but I'm new to IonCube. I recon both need an pre-installed plugin on the server to decrypt, the encrypted data? Some of the more cheaper hosts do not have that ability. As shame as it is, I cannot depend on a encoder that has to be paid for since it might kill my selling rates.

On the other hand, the vBulletin approach is pretty well known to me. I've used vBulletin in the past but my database crashed and I've never gotten back around to putting my old site up (SpiraDesigns).

As I see it know, there is simply not a simple way to secure your CMS against copying. I trust that against my hopes, my CMS will not grow that popular. So for now, I will push the idea of a license system to the back of my head and start off with something else. Maybe a wider template class.

Thanks for the answer.

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