I do not have any direct experience of this, but I read in magazine that
these Perl to exe interpreters embed the perl into the exe as plain text.
The original code can be recovered by opening the exe in an editor and
copying and pasting it into a script file that can then be run normally.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Lavallee (LMC) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 June 2001 16:49
Subject: RE: Licensing
>
>> Hi people,
>>
>> Has anyone been able to conceive some kind of licencing scheme in Perl ?
>> That is, I want to deploy a Perl program that the customer will only be
>> able to use for 30-60-90-30n days. This causes great problem to implement
>> in
>> Perl since the customer could simply comment-out the line that does the
>> check (no matter what kind of check that is). I could use obsufucation
>> technique, but that seems annoying. Anyone has a suggestion
>>
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> wnat platform are you on? If it is Microsoft then you might want to look
>> at
>> the perl development kit from active state. They have a utility to
convert
>> your script to an exe file. There is also perl2exe from another vendor
for
>> the same thing.
>>
> I am on Solaris (2.6-2.8 depending). I just tried perl2exe and it
>works
> like a charm. (At least, it seems to). Do you know how reliable is
>it ?
> It would provide a quick and cheap solution. How does it work
>internally ?
> It embeds a Perl interpreter inside and self interpret the rest of
>the data?
>
> -Robin
>
