Protecting Source Code

[Cameron Zemek]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:3EBB9D88.F8E5F6F9 at engcorp.com...
> Cameron Zemek wrote:
> >
> > How can I protect my python source code for a commerical application?
>
> Define what "protection" means to you, specifically.
>

That they can not get the source with all my nice comments and variable
names from the byte-code. That is all. Copyright laws will do the rest. I
don't have any cool algorithms to protect and if I did, I could just patent
them. Anyway, I have used a decompiler on Java source before and its not
very nice (no comments, poorly named variables like x).

> There are copyright laws to protect those who would steal your
> code and use it as their own.
>
> There are contract laws and licenses, to protect against
> customers who will use your program in ways you don't wish
> to permit.
>
> What else do you need?  Do you really believe that your source
> code is so incredibly sophisticated that nobody else could
> ever come up with the same algorithms?  If so, you're wrong.

Not for custom business applications. http://ventedspleen.weblogger.com/

>
> -Peter