Question security

[isladogs]

In the US, you can copyright the code for about $35 through the US Patent Office. It's exactly the same process as if you wrote a song or lyrics or a book or article for a magazine. They consider code as intellectual property. You can do it online. The last time I did it, they wanted a document with the first and last 50 lines of code. I received my copyright certificate in the mail in about 10 weeks.

A long dormant thread has been woken up again ...

Maybe I'm missing the point but I'm not sure how that helps.
If you release your app as an ACCDB file and someone reuses it in their own app released as an ACCDE file, it would be very difficult to prove that it was your code being re-used

 

[The_Doc_Man]

A long dormant thread has been woken up again ...

Maybe I'm missing the point but I'm not sure how that helps.
If you release your app as an ACCDB file and someone reuses it in their own app released as an ACCDE file, it would be very difficult to prove that it was your code being re-used

It helps in that if you DO discover plagiarism, you can claim a federal copyright violation and that has at least a FEW teeth in it. Not "shark" level, where they have multiple rows of teeth, but at least alligator level, where their "big chomp" can drag you down bad.

 

[isladogs]

Yes but proving plagiarism is the difficulty faced by any developer who releases software

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Yes but proving plagiarism is the difficulty faced by any developer who releases software

Don't disagree - but it HAS been done now and then.