license idea (revised)

[Ryo Chijiiwa]

Thanks.  The license was suggested to me off list by someone as well, and
apart from FSF having issues with it
(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html), it seems like it
fulfills most of my needs.
I'll present this to my users and see what they say.

Thanks again to everyone for your comments.

Ryo

On 7/16/2003, "Lawrence E. Rosen" <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:

>The Open Software License deals with ASP use as follows:
>
>   5) External Deployment. The term "External Deployment" means
>   the use or distribution of the Original Work or Derivative Works
>   in any way such that the Original Work or Derivative Works may be
>   used by anyone other than You, whether the Original Work or
>   Derivative Works are distributed to those persons or made available
>   as an application intended for use over a computer network. As an
>   express condition for the grants of license hereunder, You agree
>   that any External Deployment by You of a Derivative Work shall be
>   deemed a distribution and shall be licensed to all under the terms
>   of this License, as prescribed in section 1(c) herein.
>
>/Larry Rosen
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan at reutershealth.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:31 PM
>> To: Mark Rafn
>> Cc: license-discuss at opensource.org
>> Subject: Re: license idea (revised)
>>
>>
>> Mark Rafn scripsit:
>>
>> > This has been discussed a bit on debian-legal, under the
>> heading "ASP
>> > loophole".  One interesting question is where to draw the
>> line between
>> > use and "deployment".  This e-mail was routed along a box at my ISP
>> > that includes open-source code.  Do I have the right to that code?
>>
>> There is also the question of the line between deployment and
>> private use. Suppose I am a consultant of some sort and I
>> accept people's questions in the form of encrypted emails,
>> which contain the question and a credit card number.  I then
>> research the answer (or pull it out of my butt), charge the
>> credit card, and reply.  I am essentially acting as a slow ASP.
>>
>> Am I obliged to publish all changes that I make to any OSS
>> which I use in my business?  Presumably not; the right to
>> make private changes is protected by (AFAIK) all open-source
>> licenses including the GPL. Deploying software in an ASP is
>> not IMHO essentially different; it is use, not publication.
>>
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