Selling your own PHP code: how to do it right?

Question

PHP

Hello.
There is a written PHP script.
How to sell correctly in a way that preserves 2 conditions:
1. The code must be readable so that users can see that there is nothing malicious there.
2. The script must be protected from distribution through copying.
What is the working methodology? Who does what?
If you close Zend or IONCube (etc.) - will they buy and how to get trust?
Thank you.

Answer 1

xmoonlight : codecanyon.net is better, unless
you have a large product or many products. Then you can open your site.

Answer 2

Nobody ever sells the code.
They always sell service.
Programmers will not buy your code - they have their own, and better.
End customers do not need a code. They need a website, or a service, or a service. And what's inside - your ingenious code or wooden men - does not interest him. The main thing is that it works. And it will work only for the programmer.
The question "will they buy" (AKA "are there any potential customers") you should have asked yourself BEFORE sitting down to write.
In general, the sooner you get the bad idea of ​​selling code out of your head, the more time you save yourself.

Answer 3

In fact, they do not buy the code, but your service and support. But if you really want to protect yourself, take it from copying and encode the binding to the domain. This will stop a beginner and he will not be able to use your script on several domains (google, there is a lot of information on this topic on the Internet).
And if your script becomes popular, any of your defenses will be opened, so that you don’t fence there. Here you need to understand who will be interested in this script in its technical support / updates, etc. - he will buy anyway, regardless of whether the script is freely available or not.

Answer 4

The contract of sale, or if it is clearer than the offer, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%84%D0%B5%D... enter any conditions and go ahead, the question is how much you will pay courts worn if you notice a breach of contract.

Answer 5

Place an ad in the newspaper.

Answer 6

Sell ​​and buy on http://codecanyon.net/ project from Envato