On 13.06.24 13:00, Ian Jackson wrote:
it's part of the "preferred form for modification" as the GPL has it.
Well, that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.On one hand I agree with you. Pretty much anything you do to a nontrivial source archive requires access to its history.
On the other hand, source code is a heap of files, organized into directories. The preferred form of modification, strictly speaking, is changing one or more of these files with a text editor. The process of recording, organizing and deploying ("conveying" in GPL language) the difference between old and new versions of these files is not longer part of modification per se and thus isn't covered by the license – it only talks about the files used to build the current version, not how you got there.
-- -- regards -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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