Why would you use encrypted templates? If they're custom tags you
pulled off of Developer's Exchange, consider whether or not you could
duplicate the functionality. If you're encrypting code you wrote in
order to "protect" it, this is silly. Easily decrypted
(www.shrewm.net/cfd). Personally, I'm against the idea of encrypting
script - if you want to protect yourself, encapsulate logic in a binary
format (ie, COM, Java classes, CFX tags, etc.)
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Billy Cravens
Web Development, EDS
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Tilbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:50 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: SOT: Intellectual Property (warning)
I've just experienced a "joyful" situation where one of the largest
local ISP's sacked ALL of their web developers.
Problem is with "Intellectual Property". Australian developers who deal
with the Commonwealth would understand this.
The company I am contracted to are withholding payment (to the other
provider) for services because:
a) - The "solution" included ActiveEdit (from cfdev.com) without being
properly licensed. To be blunt it stopped after 30 days.
b) - crucial templates, eg: for browser detection (crucial on a
Government
site) were delivered in an "encrypted" form.
I am still trying to explain why ColdFusion programmers "encrypt" code
without much luck. Theft? I reckon YES. I have to prove it! The fact
that this company sold code to my current employer in "shareware" form
is a big worry.
I could go on and on. Here's a message to Peter Freitag - they call
their solution "ActiveCMS".
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