[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 2)

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Thu Aug 22 22:36:05 UTC 2019


Van,

By your definition, "run for yourself without restriction" means "but not
serving anyone else". That seems like such a large restriction that the
statement "you can run the program for yourself without restriction" is
obviously not true.

    Thanks

    Bruce

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:22 PM VanL <van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
>
> In response to Luksas' statement, quoted below, you say:
>
> An end user is free to run the software for themselves or their affiliates
> without restriction
>
>
> That's actually not a factual statement. There is a restriction in legal
> terms, backed by the potential of prosecution for copyright infringement.
>
> Lukas is correct, and you are incorrect. There is an explicit carve-out
> for running the software for yourself or for an affiliate.
>
> See sections 1, 7.1, and 4.
>
> Thanks,
> Van
>


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