Take the tour ×  In a response to another question, a poster
suggested that under the GPL:  ...you need to provide the human
readable [code], not a whitespace stripped version...
Readability would seem to me to be subjective and unlikely to be
explicitly required by the GPL. Is it?  share|improve this
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The GPL requires that it be the preferred version for editing.
If you normally write in obfuscated code, and make changes
directly in it, then that's the source for GPL. If you work on a
readable version, and then run it through any sort of
obfuscator, the readable version is what the GPL considers the
source.  "Readability" is subjective and not defined. It is
legal to release really bad, hard to understand, code under the
GPL. It is not legal to take the version that you make changes
in, remove the whitespace or otherwise make it less readable,
and call that the source under the GPL.  share|improve this
answer very interesting, thanks. Is there a