Jumping the licensing shark

Posted Apr 17, 2023 16:10 UTC (Mon) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: Jumping the licensing shark by Wol
Parent article: Jumping the licensing shark

That's nonsense. The end user is carefree either way.

Posted Apr 17, 2023 18:44 UTC (Mon) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link] (1 responses)

Unless the user needs (someone) to fix something, and the permissively licensed source code is not distributed, only a binary.

Posted Apr 18, 2023 21:47 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Exactly. I'd love to fix WordPerfect to use glibc2, not libc5 ... can I do it?

Cheers,
Wol