Hi,
Short answer, you can't :( If you've got quite a bit of money (and time) to pump into setting the patent up, then its obviously feasible .. but unfortunately, its normally only large companies that do this :(
I've had several of my scripts "ripped", and then sold on as "their own". Its very depressing, and kinda encourages you to do things like obfuscation, to at least make them have to write their own code (even if they do copy a unique idea).
One of the biggest PITA's of using opensource languages, such as Perl/PHP/ASP etc :/
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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