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

[Dieter Maurer]

Heimo Laukkanen writes:
 > 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
Distribute "*.pyc" (and, maybe, "*.pyo" for the (probably) few
customers that know about the "-O" option).

 > , Python scripts and page templates
You may consider putting them in a ZODB "product" (e.g. ZClass).
A product allows you to control the distribution.
You can specify which components are customizable.
Only those show source code when they are imported.

It is probably not completely safe...


Dieter