Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-30 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect its sources? To avoid embarassment. +1 QOTW (Everyone else was doing it, I just wanted

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-30 Thread Lucas Raab
Peter Hansen wrote: Gustavo CÃrdova Avila wrote: Peter Maas wrote: Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect its sources? To

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-30 Thread Peter Hansen
Gustavo CÃrdova Avila wrote: Peter Maas wrote: Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect its sources? To avoid embarassment.

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-30 Thread Gustavo Córdova Avila
Peter Maas wrote: Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect its sources? To avoid embarassment. :) This cannot be the whole tr

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-30 Thread Peter Maas
Grant Edwards schrieb: On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect its sources? To avoid embarassment. :) This cannot be the whole truth otherwise the

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-30 Thread Marco Aschwanden
+1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Reed
On Monday 29 November 2004 14:13, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source > > doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect > > its sources? > > To avoid embaras

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2004-11-29, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the "reverse engineering" argument boils down to "protecting source > doesn't make sense" then why does Microsoft try so hard to protect > its sources? To avoid embarassment. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! W

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Peter Maas
Craig Ringer schrieb: On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:04, Peter Maas wrote: I can think of 3 reasons to prevent tampering: [...] My understanding is that that's never guaranteed safe, no? Or are restrictions against reverse engineering now commonly enforcable? It's not guaranteed but if protection works

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Craig Ringer
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:04, Peter Maas wrote: > I can think of 3 reasons to prevent tampering: > > - You need money and want to sell your software on a "per seat" basis. If you mean that you therefore must add built-in copy-protection, then sure. Users will always get around it if they really w

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Peter Maas
RCS schrieb: I am looking for methods of deploying applications with end users so that the python code is tamper proof. What are my options ? An interesting question is, what makes your source code so innovative as to mandate this tamper proof thing? I can think of 3 reasons to prevent tampering:

Re: Protecting Python source

2004-11-29 Thread Armin Steinhoff
Alan Sheehan wrote: Hi pythonistas, I am looking for methods of deploying applications with end users so that the python code is tamper proof. What are my options ? I understand I can supply .pyc or .pyo files but they can easily be reverse engineered I am told. Is it possible to load the scripts f