[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

Ben Cotton bcotton at fedoraproject.org
Tue Mar 31 13:17:49 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Tim Makarios <tjm1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't require making the source code available, but
> recipients of binaries will always be free to make derivative works by
> reverse engineering the binaries.

That seems like a non-starter to me. It violates both the OSD and the
FSD. Even though it has the can't-be-proprietized aspect of copyleft,
the lack of source code would make it non-copyleft.


Thanks,
BC

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Ben Cotton



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