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Re: 3rd Party Classes: Can gcj Only Handle Source Code?
- To: "Alan W. Jurgensen" <alan@fullcompass.com>
- Subject: Re: 3rd Party Classes: Can gcj Only Handle Source Code?
- From: "Robert Lebowitz" <lebowitz@finaltouch.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:56:36 -0500
- Cc: "GCJ JAVA Discussions" <java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>whats an obfuscator..? (newbie question =)
>
It's basically a program designed to make it hard for someone to reverse
engineer your code. The source code is so terse, it's almost unreadable and
therefore difficult to steal. This is not a big priority in open source
projects, btw.
Rob