Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) wrote:
True, true...
That's surely one of the reasons why there are some disassembler around.
And for the rest, usually it is a question of the legal department to
include some paragraphs in the contract about source becoming available
when the company goes out of business or wants to discontinue its
product.
Yes...
I think, companies like TrollTech have the ultimate solution to the
problem, opensource the lib, but if you want to earn money, put it
under a you can buy yourself out GPL, that way you have covered most
problems. I would never go for a plain closed source lib, there are
too many problems involved with not being able to look into the source
and alter it, I have been there years ago, and can remember that
occasionally the usage of the library was closer to a reverse
engineering process to figure out what side constraints caused a last
minute problem.
