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Article #75668Re: shrouded source form
From: William A. Turnbow
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 23:00
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 23:00
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I often see advertisements for proprietary software in 'shrouded
source form'. What exactly is this, anyway?
My guess is that it is something that takes all the structure and
comments out of a program and renames all the variables/procedure
names to meaningless gibber.
Such a program would still work the same, but would be nearly
useless as source material.
It seems that such a program would satisfy the GNU requirements
while maintaining some level of author control.
Comments /shrouded explanations?
-wat-
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