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Re: deploying a package in human-unreadable form

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  • Subject: [mg110948] Re: deploying a package in human-unreadable form
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:27:21 -0400 (EDT)

On 7/12/10 at 7:21 AM, rschmied at gmail.com (Roman) wrote:

>Thanks to all! Indeed a combination of Locked, ReadProtected, and
>Encode do the job. Now the question is: as I work in academic
>scientific research, would I get more bug reports and patch
>suggestions if I published my package under the GPL instead of
>encoded?

My guess is the rate at which you get bug reports isn't very
dependent on whether the package is published under GPL or
encoded. I would think it would depend more on how easy it is to
submit bug reports and whether your users expect to benefit from
submitting bug reports.



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