Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread md
On Oct 31, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, DFSG#2 refers to source code, as is usually defined, that is to > say, as in the GNU GPL v2. No, it does not. As usual, you are just inventing new requirements which are not specified by the DFSG. > Deliberately obfuscated code is absol

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
md wrote: > On Oct 31, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, DFSG#2 refers to source code, as is usually defined, that is to > > say, as in the GNU GPL v2. > No, it does not. As usual, you are just inventing new requirements which > are not specified by the DFSG. Perhaps. But how can

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Raul Miller
On 10/31/06, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Person C creates a driver knowing with properly names defines and comments explaining why he does what and where to easily readable structures of the register mappings of the hardware. Person C then goes and obfuscates the code into p

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:20:43 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:55:45AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:59:18 +0100 Sven Luther wrote: > > > > [...] > > > Nope, because you can ship the source code and the object file if > > > you wanted. > > > > > > Alr

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:38:34 +0100 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: > md wrote: > > On Oct 31, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IMHO, DFSG#2 refers to source code, as is usually defined, that is > > > to say, as in the GNU GPL v2. > > No, it does not. As usual, you are just inventing new req

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (md) writes: > On Oct 31, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deliberately obfuscated code is absolutely against the spirit of > > Free Software. > But if it is X11-licensed then it is still free software, which is > what matters here. The license isn't the main thing