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- From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
- Subject: Re: Commercial applications in Tcl?
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 17:39:26 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- In article <Bz4pJv.8zM@rufous.cs.unm.edu> seiferth@rufous.cs.unm.edu (Justin Seiferth) writes:
- >Alternatively, you could write a Tcl compiler....
-
- You could also write a routine that encrypts your TCL code into C source
- (that consists of a large array of strings?), then link in a routine that
- decrypts the strings and hands them to TCL. This would work only if you
- don't give your clients access to the TCL programming interface.
-
- You could just distribute it with the TCL code exposed or semi-exposed and
- make it clear to your customers that they are buying source code, and that
- they must agree to non-disclosure as part of the deal.
-
- By the way, one minor clarification: It's NOT "shareware", as the original
- poster wrote. "Shareware" is when someone writes an application and
- depends on others to distribute it (for free), then begs the ultimate user
- to send him money. Shareware is quite popular in the Mac and MS-DOS worlds,
- but I have never seen a TCL-related program distributed as shareware.
-
- Appropriate words are "freeware", "freely distributable", and others.
- "Public domain" is not appropriate, since TCL is copyrighted.
-
- --
- Stephen Trier It's either very surprising
- Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom or not surprising at all.
- Case Western Reserve University Let me think about it.
- trier@ins.cwru.edu - Palmer Davis
-