[License-discuss] 3-clause BSD and reverse engineering

[Zluty Sysel]

Hi there,

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Ben Cotton <bcotton at funnelfiasco.com>
wrote:

> I'm curious as to the intent of this clause. If you're distributing the
> software binary-only and not making source code available, then it's not
> open source regardless of whether that clause is included. If you are
> providing source code, then what is the clause intended to prevent (i.e.
> why would anyone reverse engineer the binaries of they already have the
> source)?
>

Apologies for the misunderstanding, this was a mistake. I have however sent
an email to the same mailing list asking a broader question about the
implications of imposing restrictions to the files that are generated as a
result of compiling the source code covered by an open source license.

Zluty



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