<p>Am 04.12.2015 11:34 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <<a href="mailto:mschnell@lumino.de">mschnell@lumino.de</a>>:<br>
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> On 12/04/2015 10:44 AM, Sven Barth wrote:<br>
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>> Why do you assume that every software written in Lazarus/Free Pascal is automatically an open source one?<br>
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> I don't assume "is" but I assume "should be", as I consider closed source projects as a fraud against the highly valuated fpc and lazarus team members. pen source software of course can be payed for customer projects, but any obfuscation of the true working of a program in neither "nice" towards the customer nor sensible, as a decent hacker will crack it, anyway.</p>
<p>Maybe you never had the problem of your software to be illegally distributed or even hacked to be distributed as such. There is a certain point when you *must* do something, otherwise your losses get too large. And this also applies to otherwise legal customers not adhering to the license restrictions because they aren't technically enforced anyway.<br>
Also it doesn't need to be protected forever, just long enough that you can release the next version where the crackers would need to begin anew (of course one needs to adjust one's copy protection/tamper proofing then). Also the more complex a software is to crack the further down in the ToDo list of the cracker it is.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>