Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-09 Thread kunal ghosh
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 23:37 -0500, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > > IMO, If the company is paranoid about protecting "IP", avoid using > > scripting languages. > > or use perl - no one will be able to understand it, especially if all > the code i

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 23:37 -0500, Pradeep Gowda wrote: > IMO, If the company is paranoid about protecting "IP", avoid using > scripting languages. or use perl - no one will be able to understand it, especially if all the code is in one single line. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 10:00 +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > If your intention is to prevent people from reading your source code, > you might want to consider obfuscation (instead of compilation). > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/projects/pyobfuscate/ (although it > is outdated) CVS LOL -- r

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread Pradeep Gowda
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, kunal wrote: > Hi all, > I am just curious , and do not intend to start any flame wars. > If a company wants to use python in a commercial project and does not want > the source code to go public (i.e closed source ). > How would one go about packaging the python p

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Jan 08 2011, kunal wrote: [...] > Hmm , interesting , licenses are good as a legal protection. > But once your software is "cracked" the time limitation etc removed, > and its available online . No one ( the vast majority of home users ) > is going to buy that software right ? > > Illegit

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Sat, Jan 08 2011, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: [...] > I am still unable to understand that You company can still earn by > making NonCommercial License. You can choose any opensource license > and put a extra condition of non-commercial over it. This is the > standard and legal way to make non-

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < naren...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote: > I am still unable to understand that You company can still earn by making > NonCommercial License. You can choose any opensource license and put a > extra > condition of non-commercial over it. > This is t

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread kunal
On 01/08/2011 10:06 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:11 PM, kunal wrote: Hi all, I am just curious , and do not intend to start any flame wars. If a company wants to use python in a commercial project and does not want the source code to go public (i.e closed source ). How

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:11 PM, kunal wrote: > Hi all, > I am just curious , and do not intend to start any flame wars. > If a company wants to use python in a commercial project and does not want > the source code to go public (i.e closed source ). > How would one go about packaging the python p

Re: [BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread akm
> I am just curious , and do not intend to start any flame wars. > If a company wants to use python in a commercial project and does not want > the source code to go public (i.e closed source ). > How would one go about packaging the python project. > > Also as i see it, java too generates byte cod

[BangPypers] Distributing a python project as a binary.

2011-01-08 Thread kunal
Hi all, I am just curious , and do not intend to start any flame wars. If a company wants to use python in a commercial project and does not want the source code to go public (i.e closed source ). How would one go about packaging the python project. Also as i see it, java too generates byte codes