atDev Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Hello, Has anyone payed the $50.00 fee (for one file) for the source code (unencrypted)? We recently requested a file for the licensing addon unencrypted so we could customize it further to fit into our custom system and we were asked to pay this fee. For us the encrypted file simply won't cut it in the terms of features we need and appropriate hooks are not available to use it encrypted. It is also not coded in a way where we could extend the class file to easily customize it either. I just wanted to see if there was any feedback on this at all and if you were required to pay this fee again if new versions were released, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laszlof Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Are you referring to unencoded files directly from WHMCS? I have not heard of them charging a fee. I've been provided some files unencoded freely, though they were typically for modules and such, not part of the core system. What exactly are you trying to do that required unencoded files? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atDev Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Are you referring to unencoded files directly from WHMCS? I have not heard of them charging a fee. I've been provided some files unencoded freely, though they were typically for modules and such, not part of the core system. What exactly are you trying to do that required unencoded files? Yes correct a file directly from WHMCS. Basically just the verify.php file from the licensing module. The verify.php file is the file that all incoming license requests go to. It verifies the license is valid and returns specific data that can then be used by the distributed script. Basically it just comes down to modifying the return data. - We have a custom expiration date we use for support/downloads. No matter when a user purchases they always get a full year tacked on to their access (so we have to send back a custom expiration date from the licensing code) - We also track versions allowed so we have to send this data back for each request - We also have some custom code that manipulates the returned data so it remains compliant with new versions of our software that expects different information from older versions. However, verify.php does not contain any hooks or any way to customize the data returned. I assume if we had a 4-5 hooks throughout the code in there and a way to change what specifically gets returned rather than it outputting the XML directly it would be fine, but unfortunately this is not possible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atDev Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 Are you referring to unencoded files directly from WHMCS? I have not heard of them charging a fee. I've been provided some files unencoded freely, though they were typically for modules and such, not part of the core system I am unsure why you copy/pasted laszlof's post? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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