Comment by medvednikov

Thanks a lot for such a thorough comment!

You are right, asking people to run the binary on their servers is not a good idea.

I guess I have no other choice but to provide the source code to the clients, just like Atlassian does.

I just did some research, and it looks like GitHub are protecting their source code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13185814/how-github-enter...

How do they get away with this?