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Copyright explicitly doesn't do this. Try and get source for pretty much any commercial software.

Patents generally don't these days either, the patents are so vague and general that you can't reproduce the device using the patent or even know which of the 50 off-handedly mentioned methods is used to implement a general idea like 'synchronizing some clocks to measure a thing but using radio waves or the internet'

A sane system would require registration andnsource and only last a handful of years.



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