Re2: licensing perl code

And they all suck. Until Perl is compilable to some bytecode (such as Parrot in Perl6), Perl will not be compilable to some "binary".

Using something like perl2exe is NOT an option if you intend on having source privacy. Doing so for that reason is foolhardy.

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Re: Re2: licensing perl code by tachyon (Chancellor) on Apr 10, 2003 at 02:30 UTC
Care to crack a current version of perlapp exe? I have been involved with cracking these on occasion and the latest versions are not so trivial. Not unbreakable of course, but certainly requiring significant effort to reverse. At the end of the day this is all that security is about - raising the bar to make it less worthwhile to steal than to buy. cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply]

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Re: Re2: licensing perl code
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Apr 10, 2003 at 02:30 UTC

Care to crack a current version of perlapp exe? I have been involved with cracking these on occasion and the latest versions are not so trivial. Not unbreakable of course, but certainly requiring significant effort to reverse. At the end of the day this is all that security is about - raising the bar to make it less worthwhile to steal than to buy.

cheers

tachyon

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