>>IIRC the first time someone mention the use of this trick to compress the files, the copyright owner jumped right away saying that it was a violation of the agreement they had with Microsoft to use it this way.
Perhaps (as a public service) the perpetrator can ask Microsoft and the rights holder whether they mind his breaching copyright and the license like this. ;-)
More seriously, VFPA allows you to build open source zipping and encryption into your dll. So no add-on flls or dlls needed. Paranoid sorts can even embed ASM or C++ into their VFP code so only an expert can hope to decompile, especially if you add a GUID or similar to your key.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
