Nobody said it was a licensing issue.

Of course it is a security issue (also!). If you develop commercial code (Zope, of course), you have no control of the filesystems not the management access of the target system.

Get the idea now. ?

>> zpasswd.py -u newuser -p newpasswd" on a fresh zope installation and take

>> the "protected" Data.fs to get access into the source code. Or, I am

>> missing something ?

>> How can code be protected in Zope, at least to the same (relative) level

>> of a compiled object code?

>> This has been a discussion going in our company with some customers as to

>> how to protect developed code...

> Just don't give access to the filesystem and the ZODB in management mode,

> to any people you don't want to be able to see the sources. This is a

> security question, not a licensing one. bye, Jerome Alet - alet@u... - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome

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