Can we get a ruling on the source code stripper, HyperCard?

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Rathe Underthorn has implemented a tool which I believe is fundamentally necessary for proper IP protection.

If this tool doesn't get approval, I will probably find it necessary to write a code obfuscator. Would that be a suitable replacement if this tool does not get approval?

Either way, a Linden ruling would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,

Iron.

This is NOT an official ruling, but an obfuscator would be better than stopping the upload of LSL source assets from the perspective of any future automated recompilation of scripts to target the Mono CLI VM. It would, of course, make any future LSL debugging facilities less useful though.

If the script protector does not upload the source to script, those scripts will break when we update the bytecode interpreter to the Mono CLR. We are NOT planning on doing bytecode translation to Mono. No source == no recompilation using Mono == no running under the Mono CLR. Anybody who sells or buys a script created using this is going to be in a world of hurt at some undetermined point in the future.

In a release currently under development, we will be restructuring how the viewer interacts with assets in the system. When these changes ship, this tool will be broken beyond repair.

Use of this tool is completely unsupported, we recommend against its use, and nobody at Linden guarantees or implies that scripts created using it will continue to function in any capacity.