Registering LabVIEW code in China

[RavensFan]

Are you sure you need to "register" the code in China.

You said you want to copyright the code.  Even doing that won't really give you any protection that the code won't be copied.  And I would be particularly concerned about China.

I'm going to assume that you are providing some sort of licensing agreement that most software companies provide that say, "you've purchased the right to use this software, but you do not have any right to disassemble, reverse compile, .... the software."

If you compile your software into an executable, password protect and code such as block diagrams so that people can't access them, that is probably the best you can do to prevent copying without relying on the trustworthiness of the Chinese legal system.

[Thomas_robertson]

Yes. 

We've already gone through all that and there's plenty more to the story.  Registering our software in China is the next level of legal protection.

Again, if anybody at NI knows somebody who would be the right person to talk to I'd appreciate an email/phone number (the export compliance people don't look to be the right department, and they never replied to my emails).

[Thomas_robertson]

What is this!?

Did NI just come out with a tool to transform labview code into C code?  This may do the trick...  I have a feeling it will croak on our 3,000 VI project, but, maybe I can compile some pieces of it...

Is this a brand new product, or were there versions prior to LV 2010?

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1130/lang/en

[tst]

This looks like a new product. Previous versions of LV did have a LV-to-C converter, but I believe it was only available inside the PDA and embedded modules and that you couldn't access the C code. I'm not sure what the code resulting from this tool will look like, but like it says there, you can contact NI and talk to them about it.