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By coming up with the comparison to wedding cakes, you came very close to working out the intuition supporting the argument you're challenging. Companies can d
by cjbprime 3y ago
By coming up with the comparison to wedding cakes, you came very close to working out the intuition supporting the argument you're challenging.
Companies can discriminate against you for any unprotected reason. Whether the license claims are protection is exactly the question here.
- bruce511 3y agoI agree, there are protected reasons. People may -want- distribution of source code to be a protected reason, but there is no language supporting that in OSS or Free licenses, and not court or legislation has ruled that it is protected. Since the default for all reasons I "unprotected", it follows this is unprotected until a court / Congress rules otherwise. "Wishing" is not a legal strategy, and in the area of licenses it's the law that matters.
- cjbprime 3y agoThis seems nitpicky. You can't appeal to the fact that something is not yet settled law during a discussion of whether it will become settled law later.