From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-09-25T05:11:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Protecting Ruby code

2008/9/24 Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sasha Bee <rubyman77@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We are just starting a new project and it is going to be a commercial
>> application. So we have a reasonable question now - how can we protect
>> our code? I have searched the web but found nothing really useful. Can
>> anyone suggest any solutions or ideas about code protection for Ruby?
>
> Call a good lawyer.  Have the lawyer draft a contract that  everyone
> who buys your application must sign before receiving your code. The
> contract should state that they must not reverse engineer your
> application or look at the code. Hold them to it, and sue them if you
> ever find any evidence of them breaching your contract.
>
> Seriously, there is no real way to prevent people from trying to
> reverse engineer your code if they are really determined to do so.
> Everything you try to do to prevent this will only make it more
> complicated, but anyone determined enough will eventually succeed. All
> technological schemes are eventually doomed to failure, your only real
> recourse is legal.

I new a police officer that would often say, "We don't lock our doors
to keep the bad guys out.  We lock them to keep the honest people
honest."

Todd