Any language can be decompiled/disassembled. Does it make any difference whether the decompiled/disassembled code is identical to the original or not?
Massimo On May 10, 4:38 pm, Ross Peoples <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this question has been asked before and I have been doing research on > the matter for a while now. I am writing an application that has some > proprietary stuff in it, and the plan is to sell the compiled w2p file. I > know that the pyc files can be decompiled. A quick trip > tohttp://www.depython.net/proves just how easy it is. I might add that it > is able to construct an almost identical source file from the pyc files. Of > course, it only works for Python 2.5 and less and we have to target Python > 2.4. > > From my research, one "solution" to the problem is to rewrite the > proprietary stuff in C as a Python module. Only problem is, I don't know C > that well, and rewriting the existing Python code in C would simply take too > long. I had also read about the freeze tool (since we are targeting RHEL > only for now), but I've never used it and have no idea how to use that with > web2py. > > Any suggestions?
