> I'm a developer, I fork it and make changes that I don't publish because I don't have to. That's all fine, because you're only exercising Freedoms 0 and 1. T

> I'm a developer, I fork it and make changes that I don't publish because I don't have to. That's all fine, because you're only exercising Freedoms 0 and 1. The MIT/BSD licenses and many others are sufficient for these. As soon as you come to exercising Freedom 2 and 3 though, users of the code are susceptible to losing all 4 freedoms for that software. It's at the whim of any of the middle-men distributing or modifying it as to whether any of the freedoms are preserved for all users.