[Zope] Propietary software with Zope.

Gilles Lenfant glenfant@bigfoot.com
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:38:39 +0200


> On Tuesday 10 July 2001 13:09, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> >>On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> >>> > Does this work?  Even if it didn't I bet that you could just use the
> >>> > .pyc files with dummy .py files created using touch and a file date
> >>> > older than the .pyc file.  In theory, this would work, right?
> >>>
> >>>    .pyc files are easily decompilabale.
> >>
> >>Into bytecode, which isn't that understandable unless you have a history
> >>in languages like FORTH.
> >>
> >>It's also easily encryptable.  Before Zope was open source, all our .pyc
> >>modules were encrypted.
>

Just translate your scripts into Perl, it's a pretty good encryption
practice.8))

> this would make a good howto...
>
> on a somewhat related note:)... any idea on when the ZPL will be made GPL
> compatible?
>
> ~kapil