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If you can't build it then in what sense can you be said to have obtained the source code to the application? How can you be sure that the code that you have obtained is even related to that application?

>>kwhite+(OP)
Not everything is an application.

A bunch of scripts in a repo which done something usefull for someone when called in the right order can be very much open source.

Just because a commit accidentally broke the cmake file in a project it doesn’t suddenly become “non open source”. Prevents you from building it for sure, but doesn’t make it non open source.

>>krisof+V3
You;ve moved the goal posts, the point was that a lot of projects don't supply the make files or a proper list of required build tools in the first place.