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NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:20 pm
by EcazS
Can you make PHP NOT open source?... like, you have something cool made in php but you don't want others to see the source (easily at least)

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:30 pm
by jacek
Not really no, there are things like Zend Gaurd, but there are also things like http://showmycode.com/ making that a bit pointless.

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:36 pm
by EcazS
Is there any "web" language that you can make not open source? :lol:

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:50 pm
by jacek
EcazS wrote:Is there any "web" language that you can make not open source? :lol:
Anything compiled, but there are decompilers for most languages :?

Open source is good !

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:26 pm
by bowersbros
not if your selling something.. :P

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:33 pm
by EcazS
bowersbros wrote:not if your selling something.. :P
What if I'm giving it away :lol:

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 6:00 pm
by jacek
bowersbros wrote:not if your selling something.. :P
Piracy will always happen, even if it takes a few extra minutes :?

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:13 pm
by Temor
jacek wrote:Not really no, there are things like Zend Gaurd, but there are also things like http://showmycode.com/ making that a bit pointless.
I'm curious. What exactly does Zend Guard do? I've read about it before, but am not entirely sure what it does.

Re: NOT Open source

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:35 pm
by jacek
Temor wrote:I'm curious. What exactly does Zend Guard do? I've read about it before, but am not entirely sure what it does.
It is a php module that decrypts php code and processes it as normal code. There is a program that encrypts code to work with Zend Guard. The problem is that is far too easy to get the original source.