Re: The Affero license

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen) writes:

> That's not sufficient for a modern corporation: you have a duty to the
> shareholders to carefully examine all the code before publishing it,
> to ensure that no competitive advantage is lost or corporate resource
> squandered.  You might have proprietary information embedded in the
> code (database passwords in your PHP-Nuke modifications, for example)
> or sensitive information in comments.

But that's a self-imposed cost.  It might be quite rational, but it's
not someone else's fault that you choose to undertake that cost.