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  • Oct 14, 2026, 8:37 PM

    @ArneBab Having source available is neither sufficient (although/especially lack of attribution makes it worse), nor necessary (due to the ability to disassemble code).

    And given that the "open source" is very often still based upon paywalled papers and standards, and often also hidden documentation (/ documentation licensed in a way that makes usage in source code difficult), I don't consider it sufficient anymore. It isn't sufficiently pervasive.

    Source code is an intermediate representation

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  • Oct 14, 2026, 8:39 PM

    @fogti I disagree.

    Having the source available may not be sufficient, but it is often necessary.

    Disassembling code does not recover comments and also misses a lot of other context.

    But I gave that argument in a more general way in the other toot:
    rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/11

    Source code is the preferred form of making modifications to something – as the GPLv3 succinctly defines it.

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