Re: Suggestions of David Nusinow, was: RPSL and DFSG-compliance - choice of venue

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> No.  It means a user must have access to the source to have freedom.
>> C is often used as source.  Obfuscated C is never used as source.
>> Write-only languages like Brainfuck are almost never source.
>
> I find badly written perl approximately as hard to deal with as
> brainfuck. Do you believe that poor quality perl is non-free, or is the
> motive of the author important?

I think it really depends on situation and context, and it is unlikely
that accidental obfuscation -- like badly written Perl -- will or
should ever keep something out of Debian.

> I'd also suggest that this thread be moved to debian-project. It's more
> of a discussion of the DFSG than of licenses.

I'm not familiar enough with discourse on -project to post there, sorry.

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu