Originally posted by Serafean
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If someone offers to license you software, you are free to accept the offer and use the software under the terms of the license. You would only accept it if you think you are better off doing that. In that case, you have nothing to complain about: the exchange was a win for you. If you don't like the terms of the license, then you simply don't execute the trade, and you have nothing to complain about since it does not affect you at all. Either way, the fact that someone makes an offer (propietary or not) does not harm you in any way, and only expands the choices available to you.
When you license proprietary software, you do so because you want to. The minute you accept the license, you also accept that you will not get to see the source code. The author is under no moral obligation to give it to you, and you are not inherently entitled to see it, and that was established PRIOR to the exchange, nobody was deceived into agreeing to something they did not want. If this is not what you want, then simply don't license proprietary code, but don't pretend that your rights have been somehow violated.
Even if there is no open source alternative to the proprietary software in question, you are not being forced into anything. Humans lived for thousands of years without software and so can you. The fact remains that if you license it, it is because you think you are better off (you win), and you know before you license it wether you get to see the code (nobody is deceived).
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