[maemo-developers] [New Developer]: Questions - Python Packaging / Free or Non-Free / Software Licensing

[From: Edward Johns]

> 1) non-free package
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  * Create a non-free (i.e. binary) package which contains your API
>    keys encrypted in some way (perhaps just XORing the values) and
>    a small C program which decrypts them.
>
Rather than an external c program you could consider making a c
extension that you can import into Python.

Take look at cython (I seem to remember a tutorial on this in the pymaemo pages)

Ed