On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:23:42PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Since use of a public VCS isn't universal among free software projects, > the implication is that one could take a non-free upstream tarball, dump > it into git on salsa and magically make it free. I think this is a > ridiculous concept.
The concept of "preferred form for modification" is mostly about those who actually do the work. If there's an active upstream taking a drive-by patch, it's the upstream's opinion that matters. Dumping a tarball into git doesn't restore lost commit messages, patch history, nor authorship data -- just like you can't un-preprocess C code (nVidia's "nv" driver comes to mind). Ie, I consider making matters worse to be worth forbidding; I'm not proposing declaring old code non-free because it doesn't use techniques which were not even invented then. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Have you accepted Khorne as your lord and saviour? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
