[beyond-copyright] Noticing when a company offers OSS edition as SaaS.

[Brian Behlendorf]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Brian Behlendorf <brian at behlendorf.com> writes:
>> I believe wordpress.com is also OSaaS, though IIRC they offer
>> commercial templates and plugins provided by 3rd parties, and it could
>
> *cough* *cough* you mean "proprietary", but yes :-).

Gah, right you are, can't believe I walked into that!

> Well, I'm not sure a verification process is needed -- the customers are 
> the potential whistleblowers, after all, if they find that they're 
> getting proprietary features that they didn't ask for. 
> Self-attestation by the vendors should be fine, the same way the 
> original OSI logo is currently used.

I suppose it won't be hard to stick to characteristics that can be 
empirically determined by customers or the public.

Brian