[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Pamela Chestek]

On 6/28/19 11:40 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
>
>     2.    _At what point the licensor can oblige licensee behavior_. 
>     The trigger for meeting license obligations can differ across
>     licenses. The most common, almost universal trigger, is
>     distribution of software. The AGPL license triggers upon allowing
>     network interaction with modified software. The
>     CAL license implements a new trigger, which is the obligation to
>     make unmodified software available to anyone interacting with an
>     interface for the software. In other words, someone might install
>     a program that allows for interaction with the website (perhaps
>     providing a webform to sign up for a newsletter) and would now be
>     obliged to make the source code available to any person who filled
>     out the
>     webform. http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-May/004113.html
>     <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-May/004113.html> The License Review
>     Committee does not believe that there has been adequate airing of
>     this issue from a variety of viewpoints on the license-review
>     discussion about this aspect of the license, so has not reached a
>     conclusion about at what point imposing license obligations is
>     appropriate. 
>
>
> I'm not sure I agree with the committee here, this is the public
> performance issue and a /synthetic /public performance right exists in
> an accepted license.
>

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