It's not a common myth, it's simple truth...

Posted Aug 8, 2011 18:41 UTC (Mon) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
In reply to: It's not a common myth, it's simple truth... by Trelane
Parent article: Emacs and the GPL

> some really *do* get to look at (some of) the source and do (highly restricted) things with it.

Quite a few proprietary licenses are source licenses. Full source licenses. With relatively permissive terms controlling what you can do with the source. (Obviously giving the source away or reselling it is out, which is hugely restrictive compared to FOSS.) This is particularly common in the middlware and tools market and in the games market (which is mostly about middleware and tools).