Re: FN-FORUM: Intellectual Property

date posted 2nd August 2005 09:11

Andy Henderson wrote:
> That helps to make the position clear to your clients, but are you
> aware that compiling .net code is insufficient to protect it from
> prying eyes? If you've taken no other action then it's easy to
> convert compiled assemblies back into VB or C# (regardless of which
> language you used in the first place).

Yes, I'm aware. However, the point was a legal one. A person who
deliberately opens a locked box of code has done so with intent. A person
then using it has done so with intent. Case closed! No defence. It's better
than a contract. Open coding, on the other hand, can be open to the defence
(excuse) of "I saw it and assumed everyone does it that way so I did too!".
In other words, error but no intent, an important difference in law.



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