Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!selfless.tophat.at!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: obviscating python code for distribution References: <87boz3gw5u.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:10:11 +1000 Message-ID: <877h9rguak.fsf@benfinney.id.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QmznLW5z4QLwgHfvo7lI6imm0J4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 19 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: a1d1de8d.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=IYiY3<378i04K?0c7HD\@7L?0kYOcDh@:SBc;\8ijUd;:F=AP1hJGN=UGD@iN[Hd??8=hQd]3E^Z9 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:5475 "Littlefield, Tyler" writes: > I'm putting lots of work into this. I would rather not have some > script kiddy dig through it, yank out chunks and do whatever he wants. > I just want to distribute the program as-is, not distribute it and > leave it open to being hacked. How do these arguments apply to your code base when they don't apply to, say, LibreOffice or Linux or Python or Apache or Firefox? How is your code base going to be harmed by having the source code available to recipients, when that demonstrably doesn't harm countless other code bases out there? -- \ “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in | `\ these.” —Ovid (43 BCE–18 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney