the provide, license verbs

[Marius Amado Alves]

>>>The author gives me a copy of the software...
>>
>>Under no license?
> 
> Marius, if you receive a piece of software encumbered by copyright (as
> essentially all useful software is), you have the implied right to use
> and (if needed) compile the software -- as provided by copyright
> statute....

I know all this. But can you give an open source software without a
license? Ok, the sole author can, but then it's not open source. I was
under the impression that we were discussing (re)distribution of open
source software. If this is not the case, then please ignore me.



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