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[Mirko Boehm]

Hello,

> On 18. Jan 2018, at 10:28, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro> wrote:
> 
>> The client-side Javascript to me is not a
>> relevant issue anymore since JS is an open standard and browsers are
>> sandboxed these days.
>> 
> 
> 
> There is an issue:
> a) if the JavaScript is distributed as minified blobs and we can't
> rebuild it easily from source,
> b) if a large application makes heavy use of things like the NPM
> repository for its build process


Accepted. I always assume that software like Discourse is compliant with FOSS licenses, where minified JS code is not “the corresponding source code”. That is usually a choice, though - most packages have a minified and a non-minified source URL. Developers tend to ship with links to the minified version because that is the norm and loads faster. 
For a Debian packager, this is understandably a problem. We will probably run Discourse out of a container shipped by the project, not a package, so does that still apply to us?

Cheers,

Mirko.
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