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> Which makes me wonder if programs written to be deliberately obfuscated are technically not allowed to be considered free-libre or open source software?
Debian definitely rejects such software, I assume the FSF/OSI would too, although they mostly concern themselves with licenses rather than actual software projects. In the past at least 3 times in different FSF/GNU projects, the FSF/GNU project has caused downstream GPL violations due to releases that were missing source code. Even minified JS without the original JS is not considered DFSG-free by Debian, even though it is extremely common these days. Debian applies this rule to all digital files, no matter whether they are programs or fonts or images or videos or other things. Some articles related to this topic:
http://www.inventati.org/frx/essays/softfrdm/whatissource.ht...
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