This idea does not work for multiple reasons: - You can keep things secret without copyright being involved at all. Something like the Coca-Cola recipe isn't p

This idea does not work for multiple reasons: - You can keep things secret without copyright being involved at all. Something like the Coca-Cola recipe isn't protected by copyright, but by secrecy. No problems to apply this to proprietary software. - SaaS and PaaS make distribution terms irrelevant and secrecy very easy. Open source for the user lost a number of years ago, the reason companies embrace it is because it commoditizes components, i.e. lowers cost, because it's literally free stuff.