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michelutti on Aug 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Self-hosted project management applicatio...

Nice! But is it secure? As the customer already have the source code, what stops him to change the license code? I mean, if the source code is available, I can install it by myself without using the installer.

johnward on Aug 13, 2014 [–]

I know a lot of PHP projects that do this use IONcube loader and mcrypt. So you get the source but it's encrypted.

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