We enter a world in which software itself holds almost no legal weight anymore: no legal constraints against copying, but also no legal constraints to enforce access to source. Therefore, our traditional ways to provide the famous 4 freedoms have no rock to step foot on anymore: it only worked because copyright laws worked both ways.
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