Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread md
On Oct 31, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, DFSG#2 refers to source code, as is usually defined, that is to say, as in the GNU GPL v2. No, it does not. As usual, you are just inventing new requirements which are not specified by the DFSG. Deliberately obfuscated code is

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
md wrote: On Oct 31, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, DFSG#2 refers to source code, as is usually defined, that is to say, as in the GNU GPL v2. No, it does not. As usual, you are just inventing new requirements which are not specified by the DFSG. Perhaps. But how can

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
On 10/31/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Person C creates a driver knowing with properly names defines and comments explaining why he does what and where to easily readable structures of the register mappings of the hardware. Person C then goes and obfuscates the code into

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:20:43 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:55:45AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:59:18 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: [...] Nope, because you can ship the source code and the object file if you wanted. Already now, major

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:38:34 +0100 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: md wrote: On Oct 31, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, DFSG#2 refers to source code, as is usually defined, that is to say, as in the GNU GPL v2. No, it does not. As usual, you are just inventing new requirements

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (md) writes: On Oct 31, Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deliberately obfuscated code is absolutely against the spirit of Free Software. But if it is X11-licensed then it is still free software, which is what matters here. The license isn't the main thing to