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Re: 3rd Party Classes: Can gcj Only Handle Source Code?
- To: "GCJ JAVA Discussions" <java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: 3rd Party Classes: Can gcj Only Handle Source Code?
- From: "Frank Morton" <fmorton@base2inc.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:26:24 -0500
- References: <001401beb8d1$99525ce0$94a590ce@sara.finaltouch.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.
I realize this is getting pretty far off topic, so I'll only ask once.
Although you may see this as a contradiction, is there an
open source obfuscator?