<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:44 PM Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de">tg@mirbsd.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>It's the instantiation of Freedom One: "The freedom to study how the<br>
>program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish."</blockquote><div><br></div><div>A disclosure obligation does not curtail your freedom to change the program so that it does your computing as you wish. It only prevents you from making a trade secret of that change. And only in certain circumstances. Please don't tell me that private modifications are a right fundmental to Free Software or Open Source, because they stop being a right under current FSF-authored and OSI-accepted licenses if you distribute, deploy, or perform.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div></div>