HELP needed: Tricks for licensing Python software

A. Lloyd Flanagan alloydflanagan at attbi.com
Mon May 19 09:44:33 EDT 2003


Pekka Niiranen <pekka.niiranen at wlanmail.com> wrote in message news:<ba3bp3$m9$1 at news1.songnet.fi>...
> Has anybody tried to implement license key
> for Python script in Windows ?
> 
... snip ...
> 
> I would hate to learn writing C extensions
> just for this. Any ideas ?

We get posts about "securing" python code fairly often.  The simple
answer is that python is expressly _not_ designed for that.  If you
must do it, better put it in a C extension.  Better still, forget
about it and find a better business model :).




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