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Re: [bootstrappable] Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psynt
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Jeremiah |
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Re: [bootstrappable] Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm? |
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Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:20:36 -0400 |
> The GNU licenses define "source code" as "the preferred form of the work
> for making modifications to it". I think it is quite important for our
> future liberty that we hold to this definition and not accept a weaker
> one.
You are absolutely right in that regard
and should we be completely honest with ourselves about the trusting
trust attack, we must admit that unless a human takes the time to
manually write a replacement, we gain very little trust in auditing the
new machine generated versions of this file.
But as always the question becomes, who will be the one to do it?