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Written by Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) on 2024-12-13 at 16:25

unfortunately linux is a common offender in accepting undocumented magic numbers

but magic numbers aren't always code

my concern is whether the numbers amount to code, because that matters for GNU Linux-libre. whether that code is encoded as an array of bits or as constants scattered over generated or manually-written code, if it's a disguised program without source code, under an obnoxious license or otherwise disrespectful of user freedom, we don't want to keep it. but if it's declarative data, we tolerate it even if it is undocumented.

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