distributing apps without the Python source?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:59:44 -0500, skip wrote:

> Marc> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:18:47 -0600, Joe Strout wrote:
>     >> We have a client who's paranoid about distributing the Python
>     >> source to his commercial app.  Is there some way I can distribute
>     >> and use just the .pyc files, so as to not give away the source?
> 
>     Marc> Yes.  Just use the *.pyc files.
> 
> Though of course there is decompyle to consider, assuming Joe's client
> is truly paranoid.

Simply don't tell the client.  All he has to know is that it's basically 
the same as Java *.class files.  Most paranoid clients are fine with 
that.  Unless you tell them there are decompilers for *.class files.  :-)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch