Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you point to closed-source licenses that allow using the code *at all*?
As I recall, for example, Microsoft Visual C++ came with sources for various libraries; all that the (closed-source) license for those libraries forbade you from doing was to further distribute the _sources_ themselves. You could do modifications big or small to those libraries for whatever purposes, and redistribute the _compiled_ form of the code as a DLL, or statically linked into your own programs, etc, etc.
Is this what you mean by "allow using the code *at all*"? I think it's a pretty common arrangement when the code being sold under closed-source terms is a set of libraries, or a development system part of whose value is a set of accompanying libraries.
OK, I've been bitten by my exageration. There are indeed special cases such as some libraries.
I was thinking more of end-user packages: if you somehow could lay your hands on the source code of Visual Studio itself, you're still not allowed to do anything with it.
-- "Codito ergo sum" Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
