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what? no! licenses are how authors are deciding to grant specific permissions on their copyright.
that is like saying because you found a book in a library you have the choice to copy it and sell it.
the fact that source is available does not grant any permission besides looking at it.
Sure. But that does not contradict what I wrote.
That is precisely the choice one has. It's a choice one doesn't have when one doesn't know the contents of the book or when they are confronted with closed-source software.
Yes I agree. "Making the choice" would require making it without the author's permission.
But again, I'm not talking about permissions as I don't really consider them to be nearly as important as availability and ability. One has the ability to modify/use code with the source and without permission one does not have the ability to modify/use code without the source and with permission.
So yes, Libre is nice, but the source-open aspect is always the most important component.