If your clients are paying for custom work then they have the right to do whatever they want with the code after you have given them what they pay for. If they break stuff that you later have to fix then you bill them more for the work. If your code appears in someone elses project, so what? They have already paid for the product and essentially own the code so they can do whatever the hell they like.
Maybe you need to try and get out of the paradigm of holding all your source-code away from users (as in the .net world) and understand the benefits your clients can get from open code, i.e. they can actually maintain it themselves afterwards if they so wish. Perhaps that's the very reason they want something developed in PHP and not a compiled language like .net And lastly, compiled code is not secure. If a client REALLY wants to, there are very many tools available to turn compiled code into the original source again. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Ton Yeung <tonyeun...@gmail.com> wrote: > My clientele are cheap and they have a culture of break it apart and > jurry rig it if we can. > If I don't obfuscate or protect my source, i can be guaranteed its > going to show up in someone else's project. > > Some of you might say go somewhere else then, but they pay so I'm > staying. > Anyway, php, bsd, and mongo seem to work well, so I would like to > switch, but the lack of source protection and the performance is a > problem. > A friend of mine pointed to facebook's hiphop php -> c tool, and it > fit the bill pretty well. > Compiled code + performance boost is a big win. > > I've put in a new thread regarding whether or not hiphop will work > with symfony. > Anyway, I think this thread can be safely closed. > > On Jun 1, 5:00 am, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Code obfuscation in the PHP world is not very good and, to be honest not > > necessary. For what reason do you want to obfuscate code? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ton Yeung <tonyeun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm coming from an ASP.NET MVC background, where I can compile and > > > obfuscate my source. > > > How can do this with php and symfony? > > > > > -- > > > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it > to > > > security at symfony-project.com > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "symfony users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en > > > > -- > > Gareth McCumskeyhttp://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > > twitter: @garethmcc > > identi.ca: @garethmcc > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en > -- Gareth McCumskey http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com twitter: @garethmcc identi.ca: @garethmcc -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
