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Even if we only want people to have source code so we can inspect the software (as opposed to make modified versions that they run), it is tremendously useful to have everything they need to actually build a new version. The FSF has been working on this problem for a couple decades and the language in their GNU General Public License is the gold standard in that regard. This patch expands the scope of what is "source code" to include build scripts and everything else necessary to actually work with the source.
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The GNU definition is great, but I think you could simplify this a lot (you don't want natural exceptions in the rule text, because you want it as short as possible): Also, the source code piece should definitely allow a GitHub link, which it technically doesn't unless all the other data is stored on github (I think I would store the canonical version of this on GitHub, but not all teams would want to do that). |
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Even if we only want people to have source code so we can inspect the software (as opposed to make modified versions that they run), it is tremendously useful to have everything they need to actually build a new version. The FSF has been working on this problem for a couple decades and the language in their GNU General Public License is the gold standard in that regard.
This patch expands the scope of what is "source code" to include build scripts and everything else necessary to actually work with the source.