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mholt on Sept 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses

Prohibiting reverse engineering of the binaries is a standard restriction. If prevents not-well-formed copies of the source code being distributed, and as you said, they can just download the source from the repository. :)

kuschku on Sept 16, 2017 [–]

And it’s also completely null and void under EU law anyway, so you might as well remove it.

EDIT: I’ll refer to this historical case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_Institute_Inc_v_World_Prog...

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