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Is encoding your code opposed to open source spirit?

Open source is a great contribution to humanity in a sense that many products would not be available without the open source community. Many commercial products already over priced would be even more over priced and without alternative. Imagine the world without Linux, Php, Ruby on Rails !

The response depend on what you do with the encoder and if you send back to the open source community.

If you write a commercial application that uses some part of open source, you first have to place in your license agreement that you are using open source and mention their respective licenses.

Then you have to only encode your specific code, written by yourself and/or your staff, letting the open source open.

This way you respect the hard work of the open source teams and you protect your intellectual property. And please give back to the community by providing code, tricks and tips and help.

AWDb - Advance Web DataBases is now selling Ruby Encoder and will support the product. A new section dedicated to Ruby Encoder will soon appear on our site. If you need the product now, please jot us an email.

Ruby encoder encode your ruby files allowing you to protect your hard work and avoiding other to reap the profits of your work.

Have you ever put more work in a project than you can invoice? Or build a specific project on top of heavy coding librayries you wrote over the years? Then your customer switch to another developer / development company who just add a few lines and steal your code and invoice your ex customer for work they did not perform? You did ! Or worse, they send your code to India……

Now with Ruby Encoder you can avoid this to happen.

Ruby encoder encode your Ruby files: your controllers, your models and some other ruby files. You can have versions even tied to one IP address, one domain name or a limited period of time (demo / trial versions).

Next article I will talk about what to encode.