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I've been advised not to distribute my programme in the
usual way as no matter what precautions I take it will be
hacked.

Any references for doing this as I know nothing (well, not
much) about the server side appreciated.

Also any advice on precautions against hacking if the above
isn't possible.

Everything can be hacked, apps, servers, even the Pentagon.

What is "the usual way", and what security concerns do you have?

The "usual way" is to sell a copy of the programme
which the user runs on his own computer.

My concern is that the code will be hacked and sold
by the hacker as his own.

"The usual way" seem to work well enough for Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and others, but server-query models like Wolfram Alpha and others can work too. Harder to run a GUI across the wire, but perhaps doable depending on what the app does and how much you want to invest in this license security.

Is it a very interactive GUI program, or something that might lend itself well to remote computation?

It's a programme to be used for playing on-line roulette.

Depending on how it's eventually set up it could be
pretty well automatic with minimal input from the
player.

The only data transferred will be numbers I think.