This one time, at band camp, Mike Hommey said: > > > I was able to run the JavaScript code through GNU indent > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/indent/ ) and get readable and modifiable > > output. I think there are some special-purpose JavaScript beautifiers > > out there that could give even better formatting. > > > > I don't think that this is a case where the user gets unmodifiable > > source. > > However, the GPL requires the prefered form for modification to be > provided. And what the author uses to modify is definitely not the > whitespace-free version. Given that the only difference between the version you see and the version the author modifies is whitespace, I don't think there's a real 'freedom' issue. It might be nice if the author built this into the build system so it was something you didn't have to worry about this, but I really don't see this as a violation of the preferred form for modification clause, sorry. I've always read that as being intended for people that want to ship only an .o or other intermediate, compiled version of the program. In this case, you have a pretty lossless converter. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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