Luis-> Re: [PHP] Re: Zend encoding and security

> Encoding PHP sources makes me sick. > Intelectual property can be defended with a license, PHP is a fairly > simple language, sources are good to learn and see how other developers > do some things, sometimes you can learn how to improve your code, > sometimes you can learn how not to do something... > Encoding the sources is only against learning PHP. There is guy (in the US) who made a very very good application, gave it out open source and all he had in his license was "please dont use this commercially without my permission" He put it on his website and around 2 months later he saw his app very very slightly modified being sold AND used commerically on another website...this person (who is using the software commercially) stays outside the US. That is a blatiant disregard to the license of the software...what can the creator do? NOTHING. If you create something and want to market it commercially...whats to stop your compettion from buying a copy and changing a few lines of source code and selling it for 1/3 of your price? NOTHING. If you have been programming (in any language) long enough you will know that sometimes you get stuck on the silliest of mistakes or sometimes not so silly for hours if not days...at the end when everything is working...dont you think you should be rewarded? There are many more examples i can give you but I am sure you are not a stupid person and can think of other scenarios. Think about those things and maybe you wont feel so sick or think its "against PHP". Just my two cents. Cheers, -Ryan http://mrSahaf.com (the Iraqi (dis)info minister) > > --- > Luis Argerich ( ) ASCII Ribbon Campaign > http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net X against HTML on email > "There's no spoon" / \ and Usenet posts > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@acm.org] > > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 10:27 AM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Zend encoding and security > > > > > > Hello, > > > > On 05/09/2003 10:22 AM, Jason Sheets wrote: > > > Please note that the Turck developer is discouraging > > commericial use > > > of > > > the encoder until Turck 1.4 because the file format may > > change at that > > > point. > > > > Sure. Anyway, a lot of people just want to close the source > > of their PHP > > code so they can install their applications in clients > > servers without > > the risk of having their code being appropriated by the > > clients or the > > server hosting company. So, it is already useful the way it is. > > > > > > > I've been using the Turck MM Cache for 3 months now and the > > > performance > > > is amazing :) > > > > Yes, their benchmarks show that it pratically matches Zend products > > performance, thus beating all the others. > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > Manuel Lemos > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >