Re: Distributing closed source modules

2005-03-29 Thread Dave Brueck
Fuzzyman wrote: Dave Brueck wrote: By "futile" I meant that, if the code ends up running on a user's machine, then a sufficiently motivated person could crack it wide open, regardless of implementation language - the only way to truly protect the code is to never let it out of your hands (i.e. it's

Re: Distributing closed source modules

2005-03-29 Thread Fuzzyman
Dave Brueck wrote: > Fuzzyman wrote: > > Dave Brueck wrote: > > It's certainly something lot's of people are interested in. I guess it > > depends who your audience is. If ytour code isn't for *mass* > > distribution - the chances of people putting a lot of effort into > > breaking it are greatly

Re: Distributing closed source modules

2005-03-25 Thread Dave Brueck
Fuzzyman wrote: Dave Brueck wrote: It's certainly something lot's of people are interested in. I guess it depends who your audience is. If ytour code isn't for *mass* distribution - the chances of people putting a lot of effort into breaking it are greatly reduced. I don't htink it's necessarily f

Re: Distributing closed source modules

2005-03-25 Thread Fuzzyman
Dave Brueck wrote: > Jiri Barton wrote: [snip..] Hello Dave, > > Protecting code in any language is pretty tough and/or futile, but you can > Google the archives if you're interested in reading more on that. > It's certainly something lot's of people are interested in. I guess it depends who yo

Re: Distributing closed source modules

2005-03-24 Thread Dave Brueck
Jiri Barton wrote: I'd like to be able to distribute some python modules of my system (plugins) without the source. So far, I have done this by including only the *.pyc files. However, I have recently found they are platform dependent and python version dependent. This approach has been very conven

Distributing closed source modules

2005-03-24 Thread Jiri Barton
Hi, I'd like to be able to distribute some python modules of my system (plugins) without the source. So far, I have done this by including only the *.pyc files. However, I have recently found they are platform dependent and python version dependent. This approach has been very convenient because