Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
I'm putting lots of work into this. I would rather not have some script kiddy dig through it, yank out chunks and do whatever he wants. I just want to distribute the program as-is, not distribute it and leave it open to being hacked.
Protection via obfuscation is invalid practically as well as philosophically. Those of us who work in the free software movement (or the open software movement too) specifically believe that obfuscation is an incorrect approach.
Obfuscation is the paramount Microsoft strategy for protection and for security. It doesn't work. In fact, making the code open permits what many of us who consider open source to be 'good science' more secure by allowing peer review and community improvement.
Some of us believe that code is not useful unless its open. If I can't see what you're doing, comment on it, improve it if I like, and share it with others I don't need it (its really that simple).
Nobody can make this decision for you, of course, but please consider making your coding free software (GPL license), or at least open and GPL compatible licensed.
kind regards, m harris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
