I noticed they have a public repo with a tool that manages a way to download the spark code base.
I'm guessing without a token you can't access whatever code that public tool pulls down, meaning you need an active token to get future updates of the code base? Pretty cool system if that's the case (there's motivation to keep your purchase to receive updates).
I'm not asking to try and rip him off. I was just curious about the mechanism of protecting the download. Sounds like the only real difference here is the download is done over a command line tool instead of a web interface. Other than that, it's no different than serving a protected file?
I believe so. Updates are handled through composer package manager and the process is no different than updating a normal Laravel installation. I've never seen any info about how Spark is protected, so I'm just going off of my personal experience using it.
I noticed they have a public repo with a tool that manages a way to download the spark code base.
I'm guessing without a token you can't access whatever code that public tool pulls down, meaning you need an active token to get future updates of the code base? Pretty cool system if that's the case (there's motivation to keep your purchase to receive updates).
I'm not asking to try and rip him off. I was just curious about the mechanism of protecting the download. Sounds like the only real difference here is the download is done over a command line tool instead of a web interface. Other than that, it's no different than serving a protected file?