I am attempting to put together and open source project, but some of the libraries cannot be open source due to non disclosure agreements. The non disclosures specifically specify that the implementation of their api's can only be distributed as object code. I might be able to get them to agree to bytecode, but probably only if I can obfuscate it in some way, or show that it is very difficult to turn the bytecode back into python source code.
How difficult is it to turn python bytecode into it's original source? Is it that much different than java (this is what they will probably compare it to) ? Also, I'm curious how much demand their is for this application in the Python world. The application replaces online credit card processors(Verisign, Authorizenet) by providing a platform that connects directly to the bank networks for credit card processing, and also provides other features such as recurring billing, reporting, etc.. Everything except the libraries that actually connect to the bank networks would be open source, and those libraries aren't something that you would even want to touch anyways. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
