Originally Posted by Haavok
And what we have done could also be called compression. We are in no way hiding the actual code.
The new policy is to prevent code from being hidden/unreadable; there is nothing in there specifying coding standards, minimal level of comments, documentation, etc.
You have every right to an opinion but calling us dishonest is out of line.
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Of course obfuscation can also compress code, and compression can also obfuscate code. But regardless of what your intent is the result is, unquestionably I think to any reasonable observer, code which is obfuscated. How you got there doesn't really matter.
If the goal is compression you could always provide the compressor so people could perform it themselves if there was some tangible benefit. Or provide both versions for people who want to know what they're running (although that would still be questionable perhaps since the code in both "versions" may differ). Regardless, providing only this version is obviously a case of only providing obfuscated code.