Re: [Zope] comercial products using zope
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 07:00:40PM +1000, Terry Kerr wrote: > Basically I want to know if anyone else has used zope for a commercial > product b4, and how they did it. Is there anything in particular that I > should know about. Should I just rely on a good software license to > protect my code? Also...are .pyc files as platform independent as .py > files? I personally know of one company that sells a commercial product that is (almost) fully written in Python: GRiNS, by Oratrix (http://www.oratrix.com). They protect their product with a license and a license key. They do package the product as one binary, I believe there are some standard tools for this, you could try and start searching on python.org. But I don't think the compiled code has been obfuscated in any way or anything. For your Product to work with Zope you will have to deliver your Product in a format that the python interpreter can access, so that Zope can import your module. .pyc files are such a format, and they are as cross-platform as .py files. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ | The Open Source Web Application Server - ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] comercial products using zope
>>> Terry Kerr wrote > Basically I want to know if anyone else has used zope for a commercial > product b4, and how they did it. Is there anything in particular that I > should know about. Should I just rely on a good software license to > protect my code? Also...are .pyc files as platform independent as .py > files? Yes. Digital Creations, and the product was called Principia. I don't know if all the stuff with the mangled and encrypted byte code support is still there, tho. Anthony ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] comercial products using zope
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Terry Kerr wrote: > I am researching using zope as a framework for a product that I am going > develop and sell. I will develop a python product for zope. The > product will not be open source, so I will only be distributing the byte > code .pyc files, and not the source. However I understand that it is > possible to decompyle .pyc files back to the sourcealthough I don't > know how difficult this is to do successfully. Are there any tricks Pretty easy... There are good decompilers there... > that I should know about to make this any harder? I doubt. > Basically I want to know if anyone else has used zope for a commercial > product b4, and how they did it. Is there anything in particular that I > should know about. Should I just rely on a good software license to I think good license, good support and good price would serve you much better than any tricks. > protect my code? Also...are .pyc files as platform independent as .py > files? Currently yes, but I'd recommend not to rely on this - may change in the future. Oleg.(All opinions are mine and not of my employer) Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
