> but much harder to give away the source code On the contrary, it’s actually quite easy. They can simply upload the repository on github’s or simply tar snaps

> but much harder to give away the source code On the contrary, it’s actually quite easy. They can simply upload the repository on github’s or simply tar snapshots of the source for their releases and host it themselves. No, the issue is not that it’s hard. It’s that they don’t want to comply with copyright law. That’s an issue of criminality, not difficulty.