This is not a programming problem, but a question of getting legal protection. Hence technical "solutions" will always fall short.

The only legal way to get and maintain credit for your code is by making it public (and -depending on the jurisdiction- claiming copyright for it; in some countries the act of publishing is already sufficient). You cannot get a copyright on your code unless it is public. Roughly said, if you hide your code but someone manages to find it and publishes it before you then he has the copyright and you have lost it. So your idea of "protecting" your rights will actually have the opposite effect.

If the code is important enough, you also may want to improve your protection by using an end User Licence Agreement (the (in)famous "EULA"). Speak to a lawyer specializing in these matters. Copyrights, licences, patents, ... are all very complicated legal matters, but there is no way around it. If you want the law to protect you, you have to play according to its rules.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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In reply to Re^3: How to hide the Contents in script by CountZero
in thread How to hide the Contents in script by DVCHAL

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