Re: Some legal issues...
At 10:24 PM 8/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't think it's actually been done, although on April Fool's day this
>year I had a bit of fun wit' it. 
>
Actually, I wrote one and released it to the list almost exactly 2 years
ago. It successfully reproduced
version 1.5's built in functions, and automatically indented for..next
loops, etc. It left user-defined functions and variables
untouched however, so it wasn't all that usefull.
Bytebrain is correct, it created quite a stir, and was one of the reasons
people demanded the option to be able to encrypt
their source as well as shrouding it. It was never developed past my final
public release of V.99.1b due to my concerns
about legality (being as licence agreements typically force you to agree
not to "reverse engineer" the program, which
UnShroud and RIP blatantly violated, as pointed out by Robert -- see
Any way, those who are interested in my source, Email me at jpowell at iefx.com.
btw UnShroud can be used in conjunction with RIP on a bound .exe file, as
long as it is a version 1.x Euphoria exe. 2.x is not
supported by RIP or UnShroud due to the discontinuation of those projects.
PS. These were not originally intended to break into anyones code. It all
started with an inocent post by Michael Packard of
Lord Generic Productions (anyone know what happened to his website, or
where it moved to?). In May of 97 he mailed the
list complaining about having lost a projects current source tree from a
copy process gone bad, but still had a bound .exe that
was current. RIP was developed in 4 days to pull the shrouded source out
of his .exe, and about 20 days later UnShroud was
working and mailed to the list. I never found out whether they helped him
or not, due to the deluge of email I received telling me
to cease and desist :) A couple of months later, I lost my Teleport
account, and my interest in Euphoria waned. I never completely
gave up though, and recently rejoined the list (as a lurking soul, I don't
usually have much to contribute these days)
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