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Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy



On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 03:30 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:

> The bright line is actually pretty straight forward: Do you modify the
> file with syntactic whitespace or the file without? Is it preferable
> to modify the file without the keyword expansion or with?

That's not a very good line at all. I don't modify source LZ-compressed,
yet that is how I distribute most of my code and how most of the source
in Debian is distributed.

We're talking about a case where a developer has used a lossy
compression algorithm (which I think we all agree is foolish and
useless) that can be more-or-less reversed with tools readily available
in most programmers' toolset.

It's not run through an obfuscator, nor is it object code or virtual
machine code, nor is it code generated from a higher-level language.

~Evan

-- 
Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org>
The Debian Project (http://www.debian.org/)

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