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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by stephenr on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:28AM (#15239169)
How can 3.1a even be included? It's against the terms to discover the source code, that they themselves link to on the page you download from?
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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by mholt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:36PM (#15240593)
Prohibiting reverse engineering of the binaries is a standard restriction. If prevents not-well-formed copies of the source code being distributed, and as you said, they can just download the source from the repository. :)
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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by kuschku on Saturday September 16, 2017 @07:33AM (#15264149)
And it’s also completely null and void under EU law anyway, so you might as well remove it.

EDIT: I’ll refer to this historical case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_Inc_v_World_Prog...

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