❦ 26 août 2015 09:27 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> : >>> In the Debian context, the problem is hard. But if you allow network >>> access and execution of arbitrary code recovered from some random >>> registry, rebuilding the minified version from the unminified one is >>> quite trivial. > >>> I know how it sounds. > >> Well, we don't normally consider a program free if the only way users >> can modify it is something like that. > > Yeah. The problem is that nearly the entire rest of the free sofware > world *does* consider programs like that free. (See the Ruby, Java, and > Go communities, among many others, that have standard build and deploy > tools that work that way.) [...] Thanks Russ! I agree with your summary of the situation. -- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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