MR> Personally I don't see the point. I also wonder how many people actually MR> use this loophole; you say "a lot". In my vocabulary that means more than MR> two; or in other words: it is not a solid basis for a decision.
I would say thousands of installations, at last in Brazil. MR> Your source code is already protected by intellectual property laws. You are kidding, right? Do you really think people that wants to stole your code are worried with copyright laws? MR> And although not trivial, deriving the code (or at least an MR> equivalent) from the blr is possible; meaning that nulling the MR> source code is just a stop gap. As I said in my original email. MR> That said, if we want to 'fix' this, there are better solutions (although MR> still a stop gap). For example SQL Server has: [...] Looks interesting. []s Carlos http://www.firebirdnews.org FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel