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by ryao 418 days ago
Blobs violate clause 2 of the Open Source Definition:

https://opensource.org/osd

We are no longer talking about open source software if you distribute blobs in place of source code.

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They could distribute source code under AGPLv3 while also offering paid/propietary pre-compiled binaries
That is not what pyfon was suggesting. He was suggesting publishing binaries instead of source code.