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All code ran by users is distributed source code. Not sure what is the distinction you are mentioning > Unfortunately the FSF appear to be intentionally vague

by gtsop 2y ago

All code ran by users is distributed source code. Not sure what is the distinction you are mentioning > Unfortunately the FSF appear to be intentionally vague when documenting this issue. This is only unfortunate when you don't allign with their purpose, in which case there is no reason to talk of using GPL at all. For people who allign with these purposes, this "vagueness" is fortunate

d1sxeyes 2y ago
That's not true for code which gets pre-compiled. For interpreted (or JIT-compiled) code, then yes, by definition, the source needs to be distributed to end users in order to be executed. For compiled code, only the resultant binary needs to be shared after compiling the source.