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The relevant sourcecode is not available, we don't store any source code. All the relevant dependences MUST be availble in AST form though.

I don't know what the social and legal issues might possibly be, though I might be missing somehting, what do you have in mind there?

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One issue I was thinking of was companies that distribute code in binary form only, not ASTs or anything which could be used to steal their thoughts. The other issue was in reverse, however: A binary-only package is unmaintained and lists as dependencies hashes that no longer exist because they're the hashed versions of ASTs that, for one reason or another, the compiler won't generate, even if the source still exists. Versioning and archiving would help this case, at least.

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