On Dec 10, 9:55 am, farsheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. But I ask this question technically, I mean I know nothing is > uncrackable and popular softwares are not well protected. But my > software is not that type and I don't want this specific software > popular.
Understood. > It is some kind of in house tool and I want to copy protect it. this > is very complicated tool and not useful for > many people. indeed this is an animation manging tool I wrote for my > company. So if you have any idea that what is the best way to do it, > I'll appreciate that. I'll state my agreement with the opinion usually given when these kinds of questions are asked: that determined people will find a way to run software if that software is distributed, and running software as a service is probably the only reliable way of concealing your code. If your code is in-house, there might be numerous dependencies on in-house services that would make the code useless to an outsider, and you could consider exploiting this aspect of your software. See this recent thread on this subject: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/d00c8926c0da7df0 This is very much a frequently asked question (the last thread appeared about three days ago), so I've tidied up a Python Wiki page dealing with this topic: http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowDoYouProtectSource I trust this provides some answers. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
