https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72253
--- Comment #4 from Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> --- A point of data is that section 2 of http://opensource.org/osd-annotated reads: "The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. [...] 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 or translator are not allowed." It's arguable that a program whose source is ostensibly open but which cannot - in practice - be recompiled after modification fails that requirement? It's an annoying gray area though. "You need to buy X to compile that program" seems to violate the spirit of Open Source when X is "a compiler", yet it's obvious that it's okay if X is "a computer". Perhaps a good analogue is the whole kerrufle about TPM - is being able to recompile something still properly Open Source if it then can't be run because it needs a signature you cannot get? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
