If the recipe is hidden, yes.

It's probably illegal too, as in many jurisdiction the public, or at least a health/food regulatory body should know the process and ingredients.

Take into account allergens, and on top of a matter of public knowledge and health, it can also be a matter of life and death.

List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It's like saying "Linux uses C" and now you instantly can copy Linux =)

> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

It does however play a hugely important role in a recipe, in a way than the choice of language doesn't play in a program (especially considering turing completeness). So the analogy is broken.

Besides nobody made the point that list of ingredients makes a recipe.

Just that it's important to know the list of ingredients for a food you're gonna eat, and that it's even illegal to not disclose them (either to the public or a regulatory body) if you sell food.

> List of ingredients does not a recipe make.

Apologies if the parent comment was edited after you wrote yours but a "process and ingredients" does a recipe make.

Not disclosing the ingredients is illegal large part of the world, and people can die if you don’t do that, so the answer is clearly yes in some sense. This is also true for some cooking techniques, like heat treatment of raw meat. I think your analogy is not the best.

Not disclosing ingredients is more like not disclosing dependencies because I am very confident that you can't go into a shop, buy a random food and then construct recipe from list of ingredients.

There are parts of the code which don't use dependencies, because you wrote it. Which part of any food is not created from ingredients?