Ask HN: Do you care about IP protection on deployment on client's site?

[blingojames]

Hi HN, When deploying software that runs on the client's site, from classic compiled software, to Python and Neural Networks, do you care to protect your IP with obfuscation, encryption or some other solution, or it's not something worth your time? Personally I didn't find many solutions to this, did you?

[jdsleppy]

I worked somewhere where one of the considerations for moving from Python to go was a less browsable deliverable (executable vs code). I'm sure they would be happy to obfuscate beyond that.

[verdverm]

https://github.com/unixpickle/gobfuscate

[verdverm]

Contract law, I think the term is disparagement clause, they owe you $X,000,000 if they do something like publish source

[Raed667]

Worked at a startup that didn't even bother with obfuscation because of this reasoning.

It was much cheaper and more effective to draw a legal clause then spend time and energy with obfuscation