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@jeffcliff @icedquinn @PurpCat @Lyx @sun "Plain text not PNG" should already be covered by the requirement to provide source in the preferred form for making modifications - though I am aware of, and have written about, the point that "should already be covered" is not dispositive of concerns in practice.

@mattskala its a problem that has come up in FOIA cases. people requesting local survey data and being given jpegs instead of the geolite files.

i haven't seen someone try to get away with png dumping source code personally, but i have seen overt violations (Onyx Boox are deliberate GPL violators) or half-assed compliance (ex. gab, google, prusa, just dumping out random tarball updates when convenient)

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@icedquinn @PurpCat @Lyx @jeffcliff @sun Interesting similar issue on what might be considered the other side, back in the day when people exported cryptographic code printed in hardcopy books in OCR fonts because that was legal and exporting disks or network downloads wouldn't have been.