<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Roger,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for taking the time to comment.<br><br>I'd disagree with this characterization:<br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 6:31 PM Roger Fujii <<a href="mailto:rmf@lookhere.com">rmf@lookhere.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>Even more fundamentally than that is that this section does
something that no open source license does (that I'm aware of
anyway), which is to create an obligation just by running an
/unmodified/ program. </p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A person can run the unmodified program (and even a modified one) without having any obligations as <a href="http://long.as">long.as</a> they run it for themselves, for their private purposes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This even applies to businesses, who can run CAL-licensed software for the benefit of their employees and dedicated contractors.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The obligations of the CAL only apply when there is a "Recipient" - a non-Affiliate third party who receives part or all of the Work from you. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is a form of distribution - even if it is partial - and that is the trigger for CAL's conditions.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Van</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><br></p></div>
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