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[Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 06:23:39PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> This may sound odd, but e.g. the GPL states that sources must be
> distributed in their "Preferred Form For Modification". In Smalltalk's
> case, that preferred form is the image. All the code is available and
> ready to be inspected and modified using Smalltalk tools. It's just a bit
> different from most other popular programming systems.

No, it sounds reasonable. I can probably get the Fedora packaging committee
to okay it. (Which is my agenda is asking this question -- I don't
_actually_ want to make any modifications at this point.)

Is the preferred form _just_ the Scratch.image, or is it the image plus the
SqueakV2.sources plus the src/Scratch.changes file?


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