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Carmine Moleti
Hi to everyone,
I have to develop a new application and there are good chances that it
will be "web" based (it should be used in an intranet).
Now I'm evaluating ruby and rails as the tool of choice. They both are
great stuff!
There's one thing stopping me so far, and it's that the application's
source code will be available to everyone.
I thought I could put all the registration/license info in a database
table giving the "normal" user a read only access, thus cutting out
"week end"'s pirates.
This, tough, won't stop more skilled "pirates" to modify source code in
order to:
- Ignore the registration/license table
- Use an "ad hoc" one to fake a valid license
Are there any methods to avoid this?
I've read about ruby source code obfuscators, but there seems to be
noone available (production ready) yet. Still, are they useful for this
purpose?
I forgot to say that the app has to be installed both on windows systems
and on linux systems.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Regards,
Carmine
I have to develop a new application and there are good chances that it
will be "web" based (it should be used in an intranet).
Now I'm evaluating ruby and rails as the tool of choice. They both are
great stuff!
There's one thing stopping me so far, and it's that the application's
source code will be available to everyone.
I thought I could put all the registration/license info in a database
table giving the "normal" user a read only access, thus cutting out
"week end"'s pirates.
This, tough, won't stop more skilled "pirates" to modify source code in
order to:
- Ignore the registration/license table
- Use an "ad hoc" one to fake a valid license
Are there any methods to avoid this?
I've read about ruby source code obfuscators, but there seems to be
noone available (production ready) yet. Still, are they useful for this
purpose?
I forgot to say that the app has to be installed both on windows systems
and on linux systems.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Regards,
Carmine