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> Dear ImageJ Experts,
>
> The software for my acoustic beamforming system (see www.youtube.com/optinav
> for sample output if you are interested) consists of about 10
> ImageJ plugins: one for recording data, one for processing it, and
> eight or so utility plugins. Gabriel, you'll be glad to know that the
> processing code started out at Threshold Colour. The installation
> procedure is basically "install ImageJ, remove the contents of the
> plugins folder, put beamforming.jar into the plugins folder, start
> ImageJ, and increase the memory." It is a little more complicated
> because the is some third party software to be installed (it is driven
> from ImageJ using AppleScript) and a hardware driver or two. My
> question concerns securing beamforming.jar. I know this is open
> source land, but beamforming.jar contains algorithm trade secrets
> that I want to protect, and, in addition, I don't want it to be
> distributed to non-customers. So far, all I do is remove the java
> files before building the .jar file. This does nothing to prevent
> redistribution, and, as I understand it, does not protect against
> decompiling. Is there an obvious solution?
>
> Bob
>
>
> Robert Dougherty, Ph.D.
> President, OptiNav, Inc.
> 4176 148th Ave. NE
> Redmond, WA 98052
> (425)891-4883
> FAX (425)467-1119
> www.optinav.com
>
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