Best way to protect code?

[night harbor]

I am looking for to best protect code from other people in a public addon. Is there anyway to do that

[tacit haven]

there isnt really a "best" way to do it

obfuscating is a thing, but this will kill your code performance

and anyone with experience can deobfuscate the codes easily

[night harbor]

Yea I use to use that before but people got thru it ex

Is there any other encryption thing Minecraft supports

[tacit haven]

no

[night harbor]

Dam so there is no real way to protect your code

[tacit haven]

the best method for protecting your addon is to set up license

[night harbor]

A license ?

Any information on how it do it

[tacit haven]

search it up on google

[night harbor]

Alr thx for the help

[tacit haven]

it doesnt really protect your code, but you can do Cease and Desist if someone is not following your license

[night harbor]

Alr

[tacit haven]

keep in mind that this is related with legal actions

[night harbor]

Alr thx for everything

[simple grove]

Just encrypt it lol

[wind hazel]

How can you encrypt it, while still making it installable & playable?

[simple grove]

If u want to share it with people, u only can obfuscated it.. but listen, if you dont want people know your code, then dont share it..

Usually I create my addon and use in endstone server, so that my encrypted is playable for everyone that play in my server

[coarse elm]

Can't do that.

[boreal grail]

Actually i comment my code so that way the people understand it

As they said, if you dont want to show your code dont upload your addon, obfuscating it you can compromise efficiency

[violet drift]

Obfuscation I guess. Either way the source code is still attainable with enough work. I would just embrace it and keep everything open source, like many others do

Obfuscated code tends to give off the impression that you're hiding something potentially malicious, so it also just frowned upon anyway.

[crystal radish]

just uglify it imo

[stoic path]

make your code so terrible, nobody could ever think to use it