obviscating python code for distribution

[Ben Finney]

"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> writes:

> I'm putting lots of work into this. I would rather not have some
> script kiddy dig through it, yank out chunks and do whatever he wants.
> I just want to distribute the program as-is, not distribute it and
> leave it open to being hacked.

How do these arguments apply to your code base when they don't apply to,
say, LibreOffice or Linux or Python or Apache or Firefox?

How is your code base going to be harmed by having the source code
available to recipients, when that demonstrably doesn't harm countless
other code bases out there?

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Ben Finney