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> it's rarely actually OSS-licensed It seems strange to worry about licensing in a community predicated on violating a term of an OS license. Is this a proble
by daxelrod 10y ago
> it's rarely actually OSS-licensed
It seems strange to worry about licensing in a community predicated on violating a term of an OS license.
Is this a problem because source code isn't available?
- temac 10y agoIt's unclear whether a license can actually prevent you from running licensed software on the HW you like, if you buy said SW in the first place.
- Someone 10y ago_When_ you're buying a license, you're not "buying said SW", and you will have to abide by the rules of the license. (As to the _When_, that can a point for contention, given that consumer software marketing material typically doesn't explicitly mention the license)
- temac 10y agoI was serious: you can't put any obligation you want in a SW license and hope it can be enforced against those who buy said license. And it has been debated whether restriction to run consumer general purpose software on specific hardware, especially when that sw can be obtained independently of any hardware, can be enforced or not.
- chadcmulligan 10y agoYes I remember bringing up a software license with a lawyer I was talking to some years ago for a product I was selling - he laughed. I don't know if it's changed much since then - most of that stuff is untested in court AFAIK