Third-Party Addon Licensing

Third-party addon authors can integrate their own licensing servers with Pubvana. License validation routes through the author's API endpoints based on the author field in *_info.json.

How it works

1. Author sets license_validate_url and license_check_url in their *_info.json
2. Admin enters a license key on the addon's admin page
3. Pubvana POSTs to license_validate_url to validate
4. Licenses are revalidated every 90 days via the daily cron

Free addons

Set "free": true in *_info.json. Free addons skip all license checks and activate immediately. The license key UI is hidden for free items.

Pubvana-authored addons

Addons with author set to pubvana or pubvana_team validate against the Pubvana marketplace API at pubvana.net/api/marketplace.