Where is stored the boonex licence key?

Hello. I use to develop on a local machine and update my work on a remote dolphin, which is the production platform. The licence key of my company is going to the remote server (I use a simple advertised version to develop new features).

Due to my methodology, at some point, I have to deactivate my apache daemon ont the production website and make my modifications. I have to update the totality of both files and databases (because i need to avoid Git conflict). After the upgrade I reactivate. 

Problem occurs when I reactivate : on the production platform appears the banners and advertising you got when you have not paid dolphin. My users see this advertising until I have entered the licence key in the administration area. As we want to use dolphin as a white brand, i'm after a solution in order to put the licence key in the right place before to restart the httpd.

I believe there is, in the database I guess, a special column where the key is stored... Does anyone know something about it?

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The license bits in the database are in the sys_options table: license_code, license_expiration, license_checksum, (and maybe needed) enable_dolphin_footer

So try and keep those table entries intact when you wipe the database. That said, I'm not sure if that's all that's needed to keep an install licensed. It'd probably be a lot easier to simply install a maintenance module and quickly add back the license. In fact, a maintenance module would probably negate the need to take down Apache.