The author gives me a copy of the software...
Under no license?
Marius, if you receive a piece of software encumbered by copyright (as essentially all useful software is), you have the implied right to use and (if needed) compile the software -- as provided by copyright statute....
I know all this. But can you give an open source software without a license? Ok, the sole author can, but then it's not open source. I was under the impression that we were discussing (re)distribution of open source software. If this is not the case, then please ignore me.
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