If you can get it working safely, I'd recommend obfuscating. It's easier to remove it later than to add it when your full source is out in the wild. Getting the

If you can get it working safely, I'd recommend obfuscating. It's easier to remove it later than to add it when your full source is out in the wild. Getting the genie back in the box is impossible. Yes, some will find a way to get at it, but there is no reason to make it stupidly easy for everyone else. Your competent competitors would probably rather write their own code than sniff through obfuscated code, but they might be quite happy to have your full source at hand when solving problems. Also, very little is stopping someone from simply lifting your code, making a few changes and releasing it as their own, for 10 bucks less than yours. It happens, I assure you.