On 10/27/11 20:53, Russ Allbery wrote: > Compressing all the whitespace out of it seems fine to me; you can fix > that well enough using an indenter. If the variables are also rewritten > into meaningless names, I think it becomes more borderline. If the code > is part "compiled" by, for instance, precomputing significant results or > doing things like turning a yacc parser into the table-driven C code, I > don't think it counts as source any more.
Google's way of "minifiying" javascript, Closure, is actually a JavaScript to JavaScript compiler: it removes dead code, inlines and reorders functions and variables, etc. And of course, there's no easy way of knowing how much content a minifier has stripped (i.e. if it's a complicated process like Closure, a simple variable replacement or something in between), which is all the more of an argument against accepting them without their respective source. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111027184842.ga9...@noc.grnet.gr
