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Proprietary software does nothing as drastic as 'take away your rights'. There is no inherent right to browse source code. At best, you entered into an agreem
by cobrausn 13y ago
Proprietary software does nothing as drastic as 'take away your rights'. There is no inherent right to browse source code. At best, you entered into an agreement when you started using it that doesn't grant you as many benefits.
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- zanny 13y agoWe are talking about copyright here, and in court that extends to decompiling binaries as well. Copyright is a forceful transfer of natural rights (do what you want with what you have) to the creator of information, with that entire hayday of logistics and reasoning, which is depriving you of your ability to modify and redistribute said information. Source code is an oddity, sure, because you can distribute binaries that aren't modifiable and keep the source private yet still have no copyright on anything, but you aren't practicing software freedom. The source code availability is absolutely an extension, but it is no more so one than saying it is unethical to give you a car and never let you see the instruction manual if you wanted to try modding it.