On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:16:31AM -0600, Paul Erickson wrote: | It sounds like you need to use something that is both compiled and not | decompileable. No such thing exists. Actually cat </dev/random >the_app.exe will provide such a thing, but obviously it won't solve the customer's problem <0.5 wink>. | This eliminates Java, Python, PHP, Perl, ruby. It probably also | eliminates .Net - you could ship just the intermediate language | stuff, but then they could see and possibly modify that. | | In my world, that leaves you with C and C++, which aren't real great for | web development, because of development time and potential core dumps. Someone with determination can still disassemble the resultant binary. | Sounds like a tough position to be in. It sounds like a social solution is needed for this social problem. Have your company's lawyers develop a suitable license/contract that provides ways for you to determine whether or not the customer has stolen your product and provides a means for prosecuting. -D -- The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. Proverbs 13:9 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg