On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 07:36:33PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > The copyright is GPL with some uglified files (the graph layout > > modules)---they are no longer human readable. This should be > > acceptable to go in main. > > Note that the GPL defines source code in such a way that obfuscated > source code does not qualify as source code. So, by the GPL's rules, > this is not being provided with source, which probably makes in > undistributable, since we cannot satisfy the GPL on it by including > source code or an offer to provide such.
alternatively, the uglified files are GPL-ed, so it is permissable to de-uglify them :-) depending on how hairy they are, it might be no more than a few hours work with gnu indent and vi (s/vi/your preferred text editor/) > Perhaps you would like to email the author and try to persuade not to > adopt this strategy? that's worth trying too. craig -- craig sanders
