New Open Source License: Single Supplier Open Source License

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

underway at comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes:
> Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd at online.fr> writes:
> > You don't require its permission for that.  If you legally have a copy
> > of it, you can do what you like to it, just as if you legally
> > purchased a book, you may scribble on its margins.
> You are wrong.  If you legally have a copy of it, you can do what you
> agreed to do with it, else you've violated your copyright license
> agreement to copy, derive, and/or and publish.

No.  The right to modify etc. that the law grants you cannot be
repealed by the license; if the license says you can't modify or
reverse-engineer the software (for your own use), the license is wrong
and unenforceable.  Likewise if it says you can't publish reviews or
benchmarks without the author's permission.

DES
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