I have to agree with 'nick name' here... there are some cases in which the developer wants to have control over the property of the code, at least until the client has paid.
On Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:27:03 PM UTC-5, nick name wrote: > > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 5:26:28 PM UTC+2, Leonel Câmara wrote: >> >> Frankly I have no interest in making my code harder to decompile or not >> delivering the code, it's protected by copyright and usually I sell the >> costumer projects that they paid to develop so I find it ethically wrong >> not to give them the code. Besides, there aren't that many programmers >> willing to take reasonably sized projects they aren't familiar with and >> develop them, most programmers suck and can't read other people's code, >> they rather do it from scratch in joomla or something. >> >> I can see where it might be tempting not to give the code if you're >> selling licenses but, even then, again, you are protected by copyright and >> there's a long history of people giving out the code without any problems >> (for instance wordpress themes). >> > > While I generally agree with you, there is a project I'm considering right > now in which, for reasons I will not discuss, it is more or less a > requirement to make the source code unavailable until a later stage (1 year > or so), at which point customer will receive the source code. I know that > it is always possible to reverse engineer with enough effort - but > specifically, in this project, I'm trying to make it easy for me to > obfuscate and hard for an adversary to de-obfuscate and modify (to the > point of being uneconomical). > > I said "you might want to have a look" in the sense of "you are not > up-to-date". I have only tried it on small pieces of software, but both > Cython and Nuitka can start from lightly annotated / mostly unmodified > Python code and produce native code that can be x1-x10 faster, and almost > as hard to decompile as C++. At some point PyPy was also able to produce > AOT-compiled native executables (based on type info seen during a specific > run) but IIRC it's no longer the case. > > Web2py is extremely dynamic, so I expect even if e.g. Nuitka can make it > native, it won't be faster and still have enough clues to make decompiling > much easier than C++. However, if it does work, it will be enough for my > purposes for this project. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
