[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Bruce Perens]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:44 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> >It's the instantiation of Freedom One: "The freedom to study how the
> >program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish."


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.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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