Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> I'm repeating this since it was buried in a footnote in a probably
> pointless subthread. There's no particular reason why a development
> environment for java or a similar language would need to include
> whitespace in the source files it saves. The whitespace can be
> calculated and displayed on the fly in the editor, so why bother writing
> it to disk?
However, the mozilla-foxyproxy author has clearly stated that the above
is not the case. The preferred form for modification is kept in a
subversion store which is not being distributed and we don't know how to
reconstruct it from the source code.
Hope that explains,
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