At 02:15 PM 2/21/2002 -0500, James Eshelman wrote: >WebEvents is one perl app being sold, apparently quite successfully, by a >local firm, without any obscuring at all. (A BU spinoff--maybe Sean knows >more about them.) Others I've found give you the perl, in clear text, only >after you've paid, sometimes with a simplified version for trial use. All >in all I concluded that you don't need absolute security for commercial >success with perl code. I'd be interested to hear what others think.
I actually interviewed w/ WebEvent for a job last summer, and Steve Reppucci is working for them right now. :-) I find it very interesting that they don't bother to encypt/obfuscate the code. There is a section for verifying the license key, but since you have the source I'm sure it could be broken if you tried. It is comforting to me to know that a company can make money from a commercial app which includes the source. As you said, do the easy thing to secure it. Then make the app great. And from what I can tell, they're spending a lot of time bringing the old, nasty perl 4 style code into modern times. Have fun Steve. ;-) Drew Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! ***
