Protection is only good for premium plugins which you are not able to post yet. What do you mean by protection?
You'll have to clarify protection. Are you trying to add licensing to a paid plugin? Are you trying to prevent decompiling? Vaguely worded questions will always get vaguely worded responses. He might sell elsewhere, privately, or might code in advance. Our plugin, MineSync, was primarily advertised on XenForo community.