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in reply to obfuscating source code

The short answer, and the only answer that's acceptable by the legal department of your company is: it can't be done.

Sure, you might want to try to convince your legal department that any binary can be decompiled - but it's probably a lot easier to write your program in both Python, Java, C and COBOL, than it is to win an argument with your legal department.