On 29 Aug, 01:43, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:56:41 -0700, learnq wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have setup a software in linux ...and want to give the server to the
> > client .
> > But the problem is that ...if the client copy my hdd ...then i will lose
> > a large amount of money .
> > It is not in php so i cannot encode it :(
>
> > It has some conf files that can be read by any editors(ie,vim). I want a
> > way so that ...even if they copy my hdd they cant read or change the
> > configuration.
> > Is there any other solution ? and wat is the best software(opensource)
> > that can do the job .
>
> > My os is debian4/centos4.5/5.
>
> > Please help. Thanks .
>
> That's what contracts are for. This isn't a technical issue it's a legal
> one. The contract spells out the client can do with your software and
> what they have to pay you.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Well, it becomes a "Digital Rights Management" issue. If the data is
in a database on a secured server, in a box owned and administered by
learnq, and the client only needs web or client access to the data
when they request it, then the original data can be pretty protected.

Mind you, a lot of us on groups like this have deliberately broken
such security, or various security by keeping the data in S00p3r
s3kr3t F0rmatz (badly built, super secret formats). I've certainly
done so to debug what was broken and restore a broken system where the
vendor would have taken too long to go through 4 levels of off-shore
helpdesk and let us talk to the engineer who wrote it (and who, it
turned out, no longer worked there.)