"Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <un...@debian.org> writes: > JS - is an interpreter language, _theoretically_ it is possible to > _restore_ the source, but if following DFSG then in fact the source is > not included into archive. This is a bug of the Serious level (at least > for Debian/main). > > Am I right? Please help me to make a decision: what is better to do?
It hinges on the definition of "source code" in DFSG #2. When this has been discussed in the past, most DDs (in my read of the consensus) feel that obfuscated source is not source code. However, this isn't particularly serious obfuscation as obfuscation goes (for example, there was no randomization of variable names). From your description, it sounds like it may not even have been intended as obfuscation: removing all whitespace and comments is a standard compression method for web code to slightly reduce load times for browsers. You could get back something that's human-editable source by running it through an indentation program. Given that, I think it's a judgement call. If you feel like there's reasonable editable source there after running the Javascript through something that indents it (I presume such things are available for Javascript), then I'd call it okay if I were you. If you feel like the source is too obfuscated to be usable, I'd decline to upload it if I were you. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
