A commercial add-on for the marketplace

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If a developer builds a commercial add-on (to be distributed via the market place)... does this addon have so be "open-source" (redable source) or is it ok to protect or obfuscate the sourcecode?
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Remo replied on at Permalink Reply
Remo
not sure what frz and his team are thinking about it but if you would publish such an addon, make sure you mention that the code is obfuscated...

I always liked the fact that I was able to modify/improve the addons we've bought.
defunct replied on at Permalink Reply
defunct
If you do decide to do it (even though 99% can be decoded with apps on the web) make sure at least the view.php can be edited and clearly indicated the code is obfuscated on the marketplace listing.
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
Whelp, I'm loathed to say never in life, but I see a number of issues with this. While some of the stuff is commercial in our marketplace today, it is all open source, which is good.

I guess it'd have to be a pretty awesome add-on, and yes we'd need to make pretty clear that it wasn't actually open source in the marketplace.

I guess if there's some really beefy app you've got that's gonna be super helpful to a lot of people and make us all a lot of money, I'm all ears - but generally I see this as a somewhat problematic approach.