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> But you are basically saying that everyone is putting peanuts in their software, which is simply false.

An easy way to prove that is indeed publishing your code and letting the users compile it themselves. You can still hide your peanuts, but if somebody finds them, you'll have a hard time proving it was not there.

I see no difference between the two cases. As per your suggestion, it would seem reasonable to make proprietary software illegal after all.