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If someone releases only a minified version of their code, and licenses it as free as can be, is it open source?
by hunter2_ 3y ago
If someone releases only a minified version of their code, and licenses it as free as can be, is it open source?
- naniwaduni 3y agoThe popular licenses for which this is a design concern are careful to define source code to mean "preferred form of the work for making modifications" or similar.
- zauguin 3y agoAccording to the Open Source Definition of the OSI it's not: > The program must include source code [...] The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor [...] are not allowed.