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From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
March 1, 2023 06:25
Subject:
Re: "piracy" misinformation
Message ID:
20230301082500.0b3aeb6e@shlomifish.org
Hi all,

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:06:33 -0800
Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:

> On 2023-02-28 7:51 p.m., zefram via perl5-porters wrote:
> > The pod/perlfilter.pod document says "The original purpose of source  
> <snip>
> > I suggest that the word "piracy" should be replaced with "reading",  
> <snip>
> > The patch below fixes all of these problems.  I see that the bug report
> > template has acquired some unfamiliar character sequences, which I
> > suspect is meant to make the bug report a document in some kind of markup
> > language.  But since there's nothing (in the template or in perlbug(1)'s
> > output) specifying what language that might be, I'm not attempting to
> > engage with it.  It's entirely likely that the patch would cause mayhem,
> > or at least render in a very broken way, if interpreted as markup.
> > This bug report, in the form in which I'm sending it, is nothing more
> > than plain ASCII text.  
> 
> Bravo Zefram! This is a very welcome change. Thank you for submitting it.
> 
> Also, your diff/etc did indeed all come through to p5p as plain text, as I
> can see it, so any of that weird formatting may just be an alternate version
> that was displaying for you on composition.
> 

in addition, you may wish to peruse
https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ_with_ToC__generated.md#how-do-i-hideobscureencrypt-my-source-code-to-prevent-end-users-from-learning-how-it-works

> -- Darren Duncan
> 



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