Hi Mark, On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 22:37:31 +0000 Mark Devine <m...@markdevine.com> wrote:
> Perl 6 Users, > > [[ Bouncing off Re: who own my code? ]] > > This is the first of several possible spin-off questions, but here goes… > > Perl 6 has its public ecosystem, which will drive growth and adoption. Then > there’s the commercial side, which would also drive the language from another > important angle. I believe in a balance of public sharing and private > enterprise. > > I am interested in packaging some of my long-term Perl 6 > projects/scripts/apps/frameworks into some kind of relocatable object form > (binary) that cannot be easily altered or trivially reverse engineered. Put > another way, I sometimes would prefer not to sell source code to my > customers, but rather some form of compiled package that can’t easily be > diddled by a SysAdmin. If I create code for a particular commercial domain > over years, then I want to get compensated for it and not have it be diluted > with copy-cats one week after I release it. Certainly some of the generic > libraries that I create in the future can be modularized for the Perl 6 > ecosystem and I’ll push those eventually, but the really specialized > domain-specific code that fills a commercial void & that I will commit years > to maintaining, I’d like to offer a commercial license, key-protect, sell > subscriptions, etc. > > Again, I’m very interested in contributing to the ecosystem when possible. I > still need to grow past baby/teenager Perl 6, and I’ll get there soon. But > after creating something targeted only for customer purchase/subscription, > what tools are available in the Perl 6 toolbox? I saw something for the Java > back-end (to .jar), but not much else. > > Is there a Perl 6 roadmap that might mention compiling Perl 6 modules/scripts > into something atomic, binary, & relocatable? Or preferably the capability > to compile only specific Perl 6 modules, requiring an existing Perl 6 on the > target host? > Please see https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ.mdwn#how-do-i-hideobscureencrypt-my-source-code-to-prevent-end-users-from-learning-how-it-works . Regarding "Intellectual Property", see https://www.linux.com/news/why-term-intellectual-property-seductive-mirage and http://ericsink.com/articles/Intellectual_Property.html . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang I’m worser at superlatives. And I don’t ever use no double negatives. — James at War, “Bad Grammar”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj6QqCH7g0Q Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
