I must confess that I wrote a buggy but small script that makes perl
code unreadable. I promise. It basically removes comments, excess white space, and
changes all the
identifiers to weird names. It was during a
silly moment and I'm not proud. But, if you can get it to be any uglier,
we can
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
Has anyone delivered a commericial mod_perl application before? If so, how
do you handle demo versions, preferably with expiration dates? [...]
Contracts, Trust and Good Relations to the customer.
Being a small/one man company you could make it a
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Fabrice Scemama wrote:
There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily,
but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract
some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are
concerned, a workaround consists in trivially
Hi there,
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Fabrice Scemama wrote:
There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily,
but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract
some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are
concerned, a workaround consists in
Has anyone delivered a commericial mod_perl application before? If so, how
do you handle demo versions, preferably with expiration dates? One thought
is to simply xor encrypt some of the modules when the user downloads it,
mail him a key, and use the Filter module to decrypt at runtime using his
Chip Turner wrote:
The problem is that no matter how you encrypt the system, it has to
know how to decrypt itself. That is, if you xor, or even used DES or
IDEA or whatnot, the key (password, etc) has to be included with the
modules, and therefore a suitably sophisticated programmer could
How about only shipping part of the software, with the remaining part of the
software running on your own (not the client) machine? For instance, certain
subroutines could be split off, and the input output could be passed back and
forth between the client and the vendor. Then you can easily
There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily,
but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract
some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are
concerned, a workaround consists in trivially removing all comments
and \n from the source, which
Fabrice Scemama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's another way. We can't build pre-compiled modules easily,
but even when you code in C or Java, desassemblers can extract
some source from the binaries you deliver. As far as perl scripts are
concerned, a workaround consists in trivially
Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone delivered a commericial mod_perl application before? If so, how
do you handle demo versions, preferably with expiration dates? One thought
is to simply xor encrypt some of the modules when the user downloads it,
mail him a key, and
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