On Jun 26, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2007, Jan Harkes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You could argue that they do not restrict copying, distribution
>> and modification of the sources in general, only of the specific copy
>> they distribute.
> "We don't oppose that you do any of these things, once you get the
> source code. We just make it difficult (hopefully impossible) that
> you'll get to the source code in the first place."
Actually, they could even claim you don't need the source code to make
modifications. The license even says the source code is the most
convenient form to make modifications, not the only form. Now, that
the others suck rocks is not their fault, is it? ;-)
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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