[ Thanks to E5Rebel
for this link. ]
“By truncating software freedom before distribution, the
supplier ensures you can’t use the software without restriction or
benefit from the freedom of others to do so. In other words, while
there may be some open source software in its origins, it’s not
open source software you are receiving.“But the other thing to note is this whole
truncation-of-business-freedoms thing is the inevitable consequence
of developers tolerating contributor agreements. We improved the
contributor agreement surrounding MySQL a lot when it came into
Sun, and Oracle’s agreement has most of the same attributes. “