<div dir="auto">Rather than do this, why not just make an existing archive format executable? Just sticking #! and the interpreter name at the front should be sufficient. If you execute it, it extracts and runs a native executable for your architecture, or one for any interpreter such as the JVM. That can be the first file. Then the rest of the files are the source.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 11:41 Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY CCDC ARL (USA) via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thorsten Glaser wrote on Monday, October 7, 2019 11:22 AM: <br>
> Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY CCDC ARL (USA) via License-discuss dixit:<br>
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> >If it were to be done seriously, then a great deal more thought would<br>
> >need to go into it. In one of the messages I sent out (see<br>
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> What I’m doing at $dayjob (which is involved in Java™ mostly) is to, at build time, do…<br>
> <<SNIP>><br>
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Sounds like we have a volunteer to lead this effort! ;-)<br>
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OK, all joking aside, I'm going to change the subject line, so others can filter this conversation out, as it is definitely not about "Discussion: AGPL and Open Source Definition conflict", and it is unkind to anyone using a search engine in the future to try to find this thread from the subject.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Cem Karan<br>
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