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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by hunter2_ on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:39AM (#37072706)
If someone releases only a minified version of their code, and licenses it as free as can be, is it open source?
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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by naniwaduni on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:14AM (#37075209)
The popular licenses for which this is a design concern are careful to define source code to mean "preferred form of the work for making modifications" or similar.
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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by zauguin on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:29PM (#37084394)
According to the Open Source Definition of the OSI it's not:

> The program must include source code [...] The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor [...] are not allowed.

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