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Old 06-27-2004, 05:12 AM   #1
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Can you imagine what could happen if someone would release an open source project in obfuscated C ?!?!?!? Hard to read and impossible to mantain...!
 
Old 06-27-2004, 05:36 AM   #2
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you mean, like perl?
 
Old 06-27-2004, 06:08 AM   #3
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I believe that is against the license (GPL anyway)...

"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it..."

Deliberately obfuscated code falls out of that definition I believe.
 
Old 06-27-2004, 06:31 AM   #4
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what my seen "obfuscated" to one might be normal to another
 
Old 06-27-2004, 07:12 AM   #5
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uhm, not at all... :-)
how the community will answer if this could happen?
 
  


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