On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 3:27:28 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jondy Zhao <jondy.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 11:06:25 AM UTC+8, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Jondy Zhao <jondy.z...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > For example, I develop a game by python. What I want to do is that the > >> > player or the agent could not simply copy the game to others. For the > >> > player or the agent, they needn't research the game. > >> > >> Deciding for the customer what they may not do, on their own computer, > >> is quite hostile. Please don't enable such restrictions. > >> > > > > This is only one possible way to distribute encrypted scripts. As I thought > > the user of Pyarmor would be the producer of commercial software, so they > > could bind their license file to netcard, harddisk, cpu, etc. > > > > Great. Please put a big warning notice on your application: > > ATTENTION ALL USERS > The author of this program believes that he controls your usage of it, > to the extent that a legitimately-purchased copy will refuse to run if > you upgrade your computer's hardware. > It is therefore recommended that you pirate this program as per XKCD 488. > If you don't like this, don't use the program. > > > At least then you'll be being honest. >
I know you hate it. But I have purchased some commercial software in this way before, a tool named ERWIN used to create relation database. The license I got from software provider is bind to the network card of my PC. I can't use this tool in any other machine. This is true case. The world is wide, maybe it's better to be tolerant of all things. > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
