On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:34:45PM -0700, Charles Tilbury wrote:
The way I understand the LGPL, it is OK to distribute a proprietary binary. You just cannot prevent others from receiving the original, unmodified source code. Do you agree?
Well, actually I am talking about distributing binary code only, without providing access to the source code :) You may argue, but sometimes this is necessary (as you say - "to help the honest people avoid temptation" :).
that if everyone is hacking you or using a hacked version, then you are probably charging too much.
Well, there are some cases when people hack just for fun, so... And in general, I don't care if 10%-20% will hack while other 90-80% will pay :)
The would-be-hacker would have the source code for the VM, wouldn't he?
Sure he would, but he will need time and resources to learn and understand it, the he will need even more time to study generated byte-code, so... it may help to stop some undedicated (or even partially dedicated) hackers :)
Regards, /Al