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by Crespyl 3111 days ago
Only to roughly the same degree that it's possible to decompile x86/64 binaries to C or C++.

It depends heavily on the specific optimizations and obfuscations used, whether or not debugging information was left in, etc.

There's a reason the GPL has a "preferred form for editing" clause.

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Yeah, but is that actually required? I don't know much about this, but I'd guess 90% of websites will strip this just like debug info in most proprietary software, 9% don't know about this or forget to remove it, if it's included by default and 1% consciously decides to ship it for transparency.
Then it's no different than minimized javascript...