[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Thorsten Glaser]

Bruce Perens via License-discuss dixit:

>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.

Private modifications are a right fundmental to Free Software
and Open Source *because* they stop being a right if you distribute.

Using them, however, must not add any burden to the person using them.

bye,
//mirabilos
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