JoomlaJabber The Talk of Joomla

Thu, 5 April 2007

JoomlaJabber - Show 10 - April 5 2007 - Encryption, Joomlearn.com

Greetings and Happy Spring!

We're pleased to present to you a look at commercial encryption and licensing for Joomla! where Kathy discusses with Tom the details, tools, and philosophy behind encryption and license key generation.

Our special guest, Mike Carson of www.joomlearn.com gives us a wonderful interview about Learning Management Systems (LMS) and a peek at some new and exciting things on the horizon.

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Comments[3]

Encryption and Joomla technically cannot co-exist. May I politely suggest you do some research into the legal position as all of the reading I've done (particularly where you are drawing from a GPL API) would suggest that what you are speaking about here is not legal. Suggesting other developers follow your lead is potentially dangerous and certainly not in the spirit of open source. Do the research and do another show when you have a more tenable argument.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins

posted by: Jon on Thu, 4/12 08:39 PM EDT

Hi Jon,

Thank you first of all for listening. Actually we are not talking about encryption of GNU or Opensource in this episode. What we are talking about is commercial applications that are developed. Please note we are only discussing the ability, and why, you would.

It is up to the individual developer to determine the legality of his or her software. Yes if you redistribute a fork of an open-source wholly, no you wouldn't and shouldn't.

But if you create an open work for sale, licensing and encryption to protect it is done by several commercial developers.

Again - we do not advocate a position other than that.

Thank you again for listening.

posted by: Tom on Thu, 4/12 08:53 PM EDT

Jon

One other thought. Would you like to come on the show and discuss this topic? I think it would be a good one for the community to learn more from your research. If so drop me a note at joomlajabber@gmail.com and we can go over the details.

Thanks

posted by: Tom on Thu, 4/12 09:15 PM EDT

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