Re: Bug#158529: vcg does not have a usable license

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net>:

> No, no, no.  The preferred form is the preferred form for the author,
> for *anyone*.  It's what I would want to have, it's the real, actual,
> genuine source.  
> 
> The preferred form is found by considering the *actual* forms which
> exist--and seeing which one of them is *actually* preferred.  The
> uglified C code is *not* actually preferred, by anyone, to the
> pre-uglified source.  

However, if someone has reformated the uglified source and then
corrected some security bugs in it or done extensive testing on a
binary created from it then you might prefer to introduce a new
feature using the uglified source rather than the pre-uglified source.

Perhaps there is general agreement that a file derived from an
uglified/obfuscated file may in some circumstances become the
preferrred form for modification, but there is bound to be
disagreement about how to characterise those circumstances.

Edmund