[Zope] Protecting Zope solution / application -> deploying solutions to customers

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Ausum,

the hardest is to host the site yourself. This way nobody can easy break
in the code - and if something is not working it is only your fault :-)
If there are other people envolved, you might checksum your solutions
and if they claim something is broken, just check the sum again.
If they have made unauthorized changes - blame them for it. This way
software business and not only software busines is made. (Try to change
substantial parts of your car and try to blame the manufacturer for
it if it is broken)

>From the intellectual property point of view I really dont see what might
be such a great solution which is so outstanding unique to be worth the
challenge to "protect" from other eyes. From my expierience the most
protected code is quite sure the ugliest and inefficientest possible.
(May be this is often the real reason for protecting it)

Regards
Tino

--On Sonntag, 24. November 2002 19:52 -0500 Ausum Studio 
<ausum_studio@hotmail.com> wrote:

> ...then how to make it the hardest? :)
>
> This is an interesting issue, not only from the intellectual property
> point of view, but also as a mean to reduce the risks of broken code
> caused by non-malicious site administrators or authorized users (mainly
> by lack of knowledge). My reasoning: The hardest is for thirds to perform
> a change to my released app, the less are the chances that I need to run
> to fix stuff (thus the greater my time to do new things).
>
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> Ausum
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tino Wildenhain" <tino@wildenhain.de>
> To: "Heimo Laukkanen" <huima@fountainpark.org>; <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 3:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Protecting Zope solution / application -> deploying
> solutions to customers
>
>
>> Hi Heimo,
>>
>> you can make it harder, but you cannot make it impossible.
>> Simply provide very good consistent support and you dont have
>> to fear anybody breaking in the "code".
>>
>> Regards
>> Tino
>>
>> --On Sonntag, 24. November 2002 20:43 +0200 Heimo Laukkanen
>> <huima@fountainpark.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a way to protect your intellectual property, if you deliver
> Zope
>> > solutions to customers who have Zope instance running or you will also
>> > deploy Zope there.
>> >
>> > I'm talking about solutions that cosist mostly of some Python based
>> > products, Python scripts and page templates -> ie. typical web based
> site
>> > that has some logic, functionality and content, which is accessible
>> > through the TTW interface. And even though the client would not have
>> > admin account to the Zope instance, they could write a new superuser
> with
>> > zpasswd.py and then get access to everything.
>> >
>> > My question now is, is there a way to protect your work from being
>> > copied, altered or even read in source format?
>> >
>> > -huima
>> >
>> >
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