Ben Finney wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> personally (IANAL) I'd consider whitespace stripping to be a >> non-issue. After a change that is trivial for any downstream >> recipient of the code to make (running the afore-mentioned >> "indent"), the whitespace-stripped code is transformed into a >> Javascript file that is functionally identical to the original even >> if not bit-for-bit identical. > > Careful with this. "functionally identical" is not what is needed; we > need the work *in the form that's preferred for modification*, > including all comments and other human-to-human communication. The > entire point of getting the source code is that it's what the *human* > needs as a programmer, not that it's "functionally identical" to the > original program. Yes, I should have been clearer. By functionally identical, I meant from the point of view of a person as well as of a machine. I completely agree with you that stripping comments is evil. Likewise for obfuscating variable names, removing whitespace that can't trivially be put back, etc. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
