Fw: Perl 6: Protecting Intellectual Property for Commercial Code

2017-10-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:43:43 -0700 From: James Ellis Osborne III <jamesel...@twee.se> To: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> Subject: Re: Perl 6: Protecting Intellect

Re: Perl 6: Protecting Intellectual Property for Commercial Code

2017-10-26 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:57:20 -0700 James Ellis Osborne III wrote: > This particular app was .pyd files locked with calls to a C dll. Source > code is reconstructable but for an app of more than a few thousand lines > it's highly unlikely anyone is going to go rebuilding it

Re: Perl 6: Protecting Intellectual Property for Commercial Code

2017-10-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi James, On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:19:34 -0700 James Ellis Osborne III wrote: > Is compilation to bytecode still a todo feature? I managed to get a > solution supporting compilation, serial-based locking, & license expiration > delivered in Python last month for the nuclear

Re: Perl 6: Protecting Intellectual Property for Commercial Code

2017-10-23 Thread Parrot Raiser
Frankly, if you're worried about this sort of thing, you have too much faith in "secret sauces", and not enough in understanding situations thoroughly. Code is trivial, implementation isn't. Back in the days of dBase II, I was a contractor for one ministry of the local government. They asked me

Re: Perl 6: Protecting Intellectual Property for Commercial Code

2017-10-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Mark, On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 22:37:31 + Mark Devine 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

Perl 6: Protecting Intellectual Property for Commercial Code

2017-10-22 Thread Mark Devine
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