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Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo



Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> > Source code is source code. Obfuscated or not does not change that. It
> > fullfills at least the letter of DFSG#2. For it to violate DFSG#2 you
> > would have to show that it is not source and the gcc already prooves
> > you wrong there. If you use 'obfuscation' or in other words
> > 'readability' as measurement what source is then a lot of perl code
> > would not qualify in my eyes.
> 
> Source code is commonly defined as "the author's most preferred source
> of making modifications".

That's not the common definition but the GPL one. IMO the IOCCC stuff
is source, and it's unlikely the author wrote it in the final form.


Thiemo



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