Re: [PHP4BETA] Byte-coding or protecting

>What is the general feeling about people trying to keep their code secret? >I mean, here is PHP, an awesome tool that is open source, as well as >apache, and all the libs and helpers and API all just given to us for the >common good. And then there are peoplke who want to use those free and >open tools to create closed and proprietary programs. If PHP and Apache >were like that then hardly any of us would even be here. > >To me it seems rude to try to lock up your code. >What does anyone else think? > PHP is produced as open source software under the GNU General Public License, http://www.php.net/license.html This means that the source code is supplied and people are FREE to modify and redistribute the software as long credit is given where it is due. "'Free software' is a matter of liberty not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free speech' not 'free beer'". See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html As PHP subscribes to this philosophy surely it would not be appropriate to provide a code hiding feature. That time would be better spent doing other things. It would seem to me, in this context, that developers are charging for a service rather than to produce a product. <snip> >> >> Actually there are a number of other places too where I would like >> to protect my code, and some sort of encryption is necessary! >> >> Is there any succesful implementation of PHP => C bridge? >> >> I see that php3 allowed -p option, is that secure enough? How can >> mod_php run a tokenized script? >> >> Is there any other secure way in PHP4? (PHP4 doesn't allow pre-tokenization >> of a script) >> >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> Faisal >> >> >> -- >> PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List >> <http://www.php.net/version4/> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net >> >> > > >-- >PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net > email: angus@redgum.com.au email: angus@ieee.org email: angus@acm.org fax: +61 8 89711221 http://redgum.com.au