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Access to the source does not have to be free, just freely available. In other words, someone who pays for the software should have access to the source as well. Someone who doesn't shouldn't. Again, just like in 1800, someone who bought a published work of Shakespeare had access to the "source" - the words, characters, etc - and could then build off of and improve upon it. Someone who did not purchase the published work would not have this right.
Most things I post - anywhere really - can be described as "thinking out loud" - I rarely have a view that is set in stone. I know very well that there are holes. What I mean to get at though is that, just as one could read a Shakespeare text in 1800, see the words used in making the text, and then use those words and characters and improve upon them in some way, so should it be with code.
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"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling
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