<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Christine,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 11:42 AM Christine Hall <<a href="mailto:christine@fossforce.com">christine@fossforce.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I understand that. However, it seems to me that requirement would be <br>
outside the scope of an open source software license. As has been <br>
pointed out, ownership of the data and the requirement to return it or <br>
not is already covered by law in many jurisdictions, and in any <br>
jurisdictions where it's not, it will be eventually. So isn't this an <br>
issue that would be better sorted out through legal systems than through <br>
software licensing. This seems like an overreach to me.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Reflecting back, I hear two objections:</div><div>1) This is already the law in many places, and you expect it to be the law more broadly in the future.</div><div>2) This is overreach for a software license.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding 1): The flipside of your point is that this is not the law in many jurisdictions. And if it is already required in some places, then what is the harm?</div><div>Regarding 2): Data access is not out of scope for software licensing generally; there are many examples of licenses that do or do not allow for data access. I have personally negotiated a number of enterprise licensing deals where data access was an explicit term in the agreement. So if it is not out of scope for software licenses as a whole, that reduces the question to whether this is out of scope for open source software. If that is so, I would like to understand where in the OSD that is being found.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br>Van<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>