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

Ben Cotton bcotton at funnelfiasco.com
Sat Jan 17 17:07:11 UTC 2015


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)?
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