FSF: Announcing our license recommendations guide

Posted May 26, 2011 19:45 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: FSF: Announcing our license recommendations guide by iabervon
Parent article: FSF: Announcing our license recommendations guide

> With a permissive license, these vendors could use the code that open source developers have written and academic researchers have analyzed.

And they can mutate it without allowing further analysis.

Posted May 27, 2011 14:09 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

The vendor can legally change the code without analysis, if the license is BSD or GPL is completely irrelevant.

Posted May 27, 2011 19:27 UTC (Fri) by jthill (subscriber, #56558) [Link]

It's very relevant.

With the GPL, they have to show their changes.