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Quine: A program that's only output is its own source code (wikipedia.org)
4 points by dkasper on Feb 6, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Here's an interesting issue with Quines; if you release a Quine under an open source license, but only distribute the binary, does that still satisfy the rules of open source?




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