On 2013-02-20 21:55, "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" wrote:
If analysis shows that this kind of escrow would give enough benefits, that the risk of the source code being useless for reproducing the binaries is too great, then I can imagine a stronger model:
That is, if best-effort escrow would *not* give enough benefits.
Source code is published, but with all rights reserved, except the right to use the source to produce a working binary and verify its function.
... which would mean that you could, as a beneficiary who finds the published source useless, force them to improve the published source even before the second five-year term is over, or prove that the published source can indeed produce a working and equivalent binary.