On Friday 16. January 2015 13.44, Zluty Sysel wrote: > I was wondering if adding a clause to prevent reverse engineering to the > standard 3-clause BSD license would violate any of the open source > definition tenets. > > The additional clause would read something like this: > > "Reverse engineering, decompilation, and/or disassembly of software > provided in binary form under this license is prohibited."
See section 3 of the Open Source Definition: http://opensource.org/osd === "3. Derived Works The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software." === My understanding is that your additional clause would violate that definition, and no longer qualify as Open Source. -- Johnny A. Solbu web site, http://www.solbu.net PGP key ID: 0xFA687324
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