Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No. It means a user must have access to the source to have freedom. >> C is often used as source. Obfuscated C is never used as source. >> Write-only languages like Brainfuck are almost never source. > > I find badly written perl approximately as hard to deal with as > brainfuck. Do you believe that poor quality perl is non-free, or is the > motive of the author important?
I think it really depends on situation and context, and it is unlikely that accidental obfuscation -- like badly written Perl -- will or should ever keep something out of Debian. > I'd also suggest that this thread be moved to debian-project. It's more > of a discussion of the DFSG than of licenses. I'm not familiar enough with discourse on -project to post there, sorry. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
