On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:16:25AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Cronyx Tau-PCI family will become a third one. The peculiarity of this > driver that it contains private code. This code is distributed as > obfuscated source code with usual open source license agreement.Since > code is protected by obfuscation it is satisfy needs of commerce. On the > other hand it still stays a source code and thus it becomes closer to > open source projects. I hope this form of private code distribution will > become a real alternative to object form.
"still stays a source code and thus it becomes closer to open source projects" is false--obfuscated code is not source at all. This fails DFSG#2. If the license permits deobfuscating (which it must, to be a free license), somebody spends the time doing so, and the results are actually usable as source, it might pass. (I didn't read the license.) -- Glenn Maynard
