From: Alexey Petrushin <axyd80@...>
Date: 2008-10-19T05:07:59+09:00
Subject: Re: I found way to protect Source Code! :)

Thanks for advices :)

So, as I understood, there are:

- Software as a Service, with owned hosting.
Yes! This is the best one, but sometimes clients wants something 
'physically' tangible :).

- JRuby Compiler (http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/JRuby_Compiler)
It's fully finished and ready to use.

Translates <name>.rb => <name>.class and because it's not one to one 
mapping there is an information lost, that can be seen as the 
obfuscation.

There is no .class to .rb decompiler, and (though, I'm not sure) these 
.class files cannot be decompiled even to .java ones.

- Zenobfuscate (http://blog.zenspider.com/zenobfuscate/)
Has some limitations.
I've choose Ruby for all it's goodnesses, and don't want to give back 
any of it. I'll better leave the product open than will agree to any 
limitation.

- rubyencoder (rubyencoder.com)
Somehow they do it, don't know though how.



It seems, that JRuby Compiler is really what i need :).

I just want to rise barrier, to buy time if some company will try to 
build a copy-product. For sure they'll can reverse engineer it, but not 
so fast as if they will have original sources.
There is no need to protect from hackers & cracks, my product will be 
free (but not open).
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