From: Jeremiah@pdp10.guru
To: mhw@netris.org
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, bootstrappable@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [bootstrappable] Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:20:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tk02bbv.fsf@ITSx00.pdp10.guru> (raw)
> 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?
next reply other threads:[~2017-07-07 21:20 UTC|newest]
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2017-07-07 21:20 Jeremiah [this message]
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2017-07-07 10:34 [bootstrappable] Can Guile be bootstrapped from source without psyntax-pp.scm? Jeremiah
2017-07-07 16:48 ` Mark H Weaver
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