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My problem is with copyright and as others have pointed out is it is quite easy just to take the code from the page that displays the copyright.
For example if using JavaScript, all you need to do is to remove the bit of JavaScript that points to your external file. The only benefit I see to using a JavaScript file is you can remotely control the content of the copyright notice, but it does not really stop them removing it and is a right pain to modify each file if you need to change the notice. Say there are 100 sites/systems.
What I think might be better, although a little harder to setup would be to use a database (MySQL) to show the copyright notice.
I can see there are a few benefits to this, e.g...
- You can use one file on all 'systems' you want to copyright. If someone removes it, it will error their system, as I can include important bits of the system in this external file. Therefore, they cannot remove the notice. If you update this file, it will update across all systems.
- I can use the one database to manage all copyright notices. Rather than separate files. So when you want to modify its saves so much time.
- I can use the database to store other important information such as license keys, company name, URL, expiry dates etc....
I might be misunderstanding the complexity of what I wish to achieve, but I believe copyright notices are begging to be done in an external database with an external file, at least that way they cannot remove anything.
I have one sticking point however; I have no idea how to do this!
Are there any takers that can point me to a good example on how to carry this out, or anyone that already has a script like this that they could share with me.
Thanks to those that are willing to help,
Richard
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