Re:The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (2013)
by bandrami on Thursday March 19, 2015 @03:59AM
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Because that makes your software not just proprietary but _hugely_ proprietary (remember, even GPL software has absolutely no conditions on _use_, deliberately).
Come to think of it, it's not even clear you could effectively write such a license for software (the analogous artistic license is generally about performance/broadcast, which doesn't have an equivalent in software). Once the user has received the code from the licensor, legally the situation is out of the licensor's hands _except for the issue of redistribution_, which is what the GPL restricts.
Come to think of it, it's not even clear you could effectively write such a license for software (the analogous artistic license is generally about performance/broadcast, which doesn't have an equivalent in software). Once the user has received the code from the licensor, legally the situation is out of the licensor's hands _except for the issue of redistribution_, which is what the GPL restricts.