Pyarmor, guard your python scripts

[Jondy Zhao]

On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 1:02:09 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Jondy Zhao <jondy.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The loader only can see the compiled scripts as ast nodes, even if the load some tools could dump the separated ast node to bytecode and de-compile it, think of one script is divided into thousands of pieces, it's not easy to assemble them again.
> >
> > The final solution is to distribute the loader with encrypted scripts, only my own loader can run the encrypted scripts.
> 
> So anyone who's going to run your program needs your loader. If
> someone wants to redistribute your code, s/he can simply distribute
> the loader as well - and you're right back where you started. You have
> still achieved nothing in terms of preventing redistribution.
> 
> Please do not do this. Not only are you not achieving the goal you
> think you are, you're making a mess for people to have to deal with.
> 
> ChrisA

But the loader and the encrypted scripts could be bind to one fixed computer when I distribute them to end users, so the end users can't redistribute them to any other machines. Actually this is what some commercial software does.