Re: Cronyx Tau-ISA obfuscated driver
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:16:25AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Cronyx Tau-PCI family will become a third one. The peculiarity of this
> driver that it contains private code. This code is distributed as
> obfuscated source code with usual open source license agreement.Since
> code is protected by obfuscation it is satisfy needs of commerce. On the
> other hand it still stays a source code and thus it becomes closer to
> open source projects. I hope this form of private code distribution will
> become a real alternative to object form.
"still stays a source code and thus it becomes closer to open source
projects" is false--obfuscated code is not source at all. This fails
DFSG#2.
If the license permits deobfuscating (which it must, to be a free
license), somebody spends the time doing so, and the results are actually
usable as source, it might pass. (I didn't read the license.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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