On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:05:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can a company release a binary - or the disassembled source to one - under > the GPL? Does that make it DFSG-free? By your argument it would.
They could certainly release the disassembled source under the GPL. Whether or not it would be a useful thing to do is another question. > If this were just a minor screwing with the code, then I would accept the > cleanup offered by the maintainer. But serious code obfusication can make the > code worthless for editing, to the point where the dissassembled assembly > could actually be easier to read. (Quick: if OOOO00OO0 = 00001, and OOO000OO0 > = 00010, what's OOO00OO0 + OOO000OO0 + 000?) It's just not source at that > point. Well, the point is that what we have in this case *is* source, and we *can* distribute it. So rather than arguing about that, we should be asking whether we *wish* to distribute it. And that discussion probably doesn't belong on this particular list any more. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] That secret you've been guarding, isn't.
