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But then again isn't all client-side JavaScript open source?
by zachrose 14y ago
But then again isn't all client-side JavaScript open source?
- stephenson 14y agoNo, you can see the source, but thats not the same as "open source".
- nkassis 14y agothis is an important distinction. Everything on the web is copyrighted and you can't just go and grab images/html/css/javascript without permission from the copyright holder. And view source isn't going to show you much when looking at sites like Gmail where the code is generated by a compiler that makes it as obtuse and unreadable as machinely possible.
- rmc 14y agoExactly. Think of it like a book. You can see the source code of a book (i.e. the individual letters), but you cannot copy it (without permission)
- prodigal_erik 14y agoGPL requires that users have access to the preferred form for modifying the work. If you're using coffeescript or a state machine graph or whatever, the generated javascript is more like object code than maintainable source.