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If someone releases only a minified version of their code, and licenses it as free as can be, is it open source?



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.


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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