Dear LUG Members,
Imagine I develop a software [not dependent on any library at all] and
I "release" binary under GNU GPL, now as I understand from the GPL,
anyone in public who has the binary can legally force me to provide
him/her the source code in usable form. But imagine if the binary is
released under BSD license, while anyone can still reverse engineer
the binary and redistribute it legally, can he/she force me to provide
the source code?
I might be wrong but my understanding based on
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php suggests that
releasing only binary does not violate any condition of the license
but does that mean that BSD is not a "free" license? [freedom to see
and modify source code is not available]
Note: I have already googled for this a lot and the only thing which
comes up is that "if you take the BSD licensed code, modify it then no
one can force you to release the binary but I have not found any page
which talks about whether releasing code is actually necessary at all
in the first place when the licensing is BSD"
Regards,
Ashish
