On Aug 25, 2006, at 11:05, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Hi americans :-)
Heh. Nailed me. ;-)
So the programmer works for the source code, makes it open source,
and then
comes another programmer that gets it, delete the name of the
author, make
some changes, and then sell the program pretending it is his code, and
sometimes the second programmer has more relations and can contact
more
clients. In USA there are ways of protections, but in other
countries there
are not.
This issue is inherent in all open source software, of course, not
just Perl software.
I think that if mod_perl programs could be very well encrypted, this
technology would be a little more used than it is now, but they
can't, and
if this is a disadvantage for some of us, we shouldn't say that the
programmers shouldn't need such a thing.
I think that if obfuscating the source code (by compiling or
encrypting or whatever) is a high priority for you, then Perl may not
be the best choice of language for your software. And even for Java
there are decompilers and for PHP the code must be unencrypted to
run. So maybe C is the best choice.
But you should know that there are no perfect solutions to this
issue. Ultimately, it's a social and political issue, not a
technological issue.
Best,
David
