On 4/10/07, Robert Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment refox protects the majority of the foxpro's communities > applications.
I dispute your claim. The vast majority of FoxPro's community applications are "protected" by *honesty*. I suspect the vast majority of files are unencrypted apps and FXPs, FRXs and so forth. Licenses and copyright law provide a means of pursuing violations, but at a cost. I have one former customer who refused to continue paying annual maintenance fees and insisted he could continue to use our software without paying for it. Perhaps he is still using it. Poor sod. He has no idea what he's missing. If you really need to license your software, you could include some binary-only licensing module, separate from your code. DRM doesn't work, really. It never has. It's a polite lie, like door locks keep out thieves. You could require some sort of check-in, you could expire the code. People can patch around that code. Perhaps you have some secret algorithm that needs protection. That's a different case. > At the end of the day is there a 'refox' equivalent for python that will > give us quite a bit of protection from reverse engineering? If you Google "Python obfuscation" you can find some leads. I like Alex Martelli's summary: "the widespread and totally unfounded belief in the worth of obfuscation is also damaging, but less so, since it only steals some time and energy from developers who (if they share this belief) can't be all that good anyway;-)." http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-November/350898.html -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
