[Gllug] Hypothetical GPL question

[Simon Stewart]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:44:14AM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2001 09:19, you wrote:
> > That's interesting, presumably it means "preferred by the people who
> > started the project".
> 
> It means the best form available. If you programmed something for Perl, and 
> then translated it to some obfuscated form for release, I suspect it would 
> fail the test. Perhaps bad faith would have to be shown though.

I seem to recall one of the major graphics chipset vendors released a
deliberately obfucated XFree driver, much to the discontent of the
community. There was precious little anyone could do about it,
though, because a) the company didn't _have_ to make the source
available and b) the source _was_ there and readable.

Cheers,

Simon

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