Michael Meskes, on sam. 17 févr. 2018 13:57:53 +0100, wrote: > > Minification is quite comparable to compilation. I will give you some > > examples from my frustration with Drupal8 in this answer. This can no > > longer be seen as source code: > > ... > > I disagree, it is not maintainable source code, yes, but source code > nonetheless. According to wikipedia source code is: > > In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions, > possibly with comments, written using[1] a human-readable programming > language, usually as plain text.
And according to the GPL, it is “ The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. ” minified source is definitly not that. That's not something one can maintain anyway, so really not source code. You could as well claim that you can modify binary ELF files: for the processor, it's source code. Samuel
