On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 12:22, Paul Jakma <p...@jakma.org> wrote: > > Personally, I want a copyleft for the 'gitlab/github/gogs' era: Source > must be made available, unless you're on a desert island or there is a > credibly physical risk of imprisonment or harm to individuals by > disclosing their identity.
The point is, made available to whom? To the users? Sure. Upstream? In a world where people happily hack their own software, this might open a can of worms upstream and downstream: - it would impose a review process (and infrastructure) for patches that would slow down development - it would disincentive hack for personal purpose for the burden to prepare a 3rd party readable patch In both case, strictly applied, such rule would create weird practical issues to free software. That's why the Hacking License assigns copyright and patent license upstream but without turning upstream copyright holders into Users. They can also become users, obviously, but they can also just benefit from the copyright assignment and patent license to reimplement similar behavior without legal issues. Giacomo
