https://lemmy.ml/post/13864821
I’d understand if they were a random user, but a mod should already have at least some understanding about a community’s topic.
But worse to me are their comments in that post calling the people responding “childish trolls in this community”. I do not think that this is appropriate for a moderator.
It’s not open-source without the license. I think they may be confusing source available with open source.
In the case of JavaScript, obfuscation turns source code into a compilation result for performance and “security” reasons. It removes unused tokens, comments, spaces, newlines, etc. to reduce the data transfer size.
So, by definition, non-obfuscated code is source code, as it is the code the compiled or built product originates from. However, most sites on the web don’t ship source code, only minified and obfuscated code.
@isVeryLoud Even “source available” is a license. The code sent to your browser may be proprietary, all rights reserved, you may not be legally allowed to study it, yet it has to be somehow sent to your browser for things to appear on your screen. The fact that it’s readable, and the fact that you are legally allowed to read it, are two different things. All I’m saying is that taking the “open” as “readable” is simply wrong, that’s not how things work. If it did, many things would fall apart.