Re: Re: Zend encoding and security

Hello, On 05/09/2003 04:02 PM, Leif K-Brooks wrote:

That's what free software is all about. Any decent free software license should allow them to market it with NO changes, minor or otherwise.

Sure, but that does not work in the real world because people are not that honest. If they can steal the code for free and change it so nobody can prove that they did it, there is no license that will prevent it to happen.

Manuel Lemos wrote:

Hello, On 05/09/2003 02:28 PM, Luis wrote:

So you say that to make money you need "closed sources" ? That's not true at all.

I did not say that. What I said is that if you do not protect your source you allow other people to take advantage of your work and eventually compete with you in a market that you invested work in, despite it was all made from your efforts. Another point is that if you give you source code away of something that you sell with source, you allows other to transform your code enough that you are not able to prove that it was based in your work. This way, you effectively allow others to pirate your code without being able to legally prove it and defend yourself.

-- Regards, Manuel Lemos