[License-review] For approval: The Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4)

[VanL]

Hi Nigel,

Let me start with the following:

Answers that states with "as a general rule" or "your example is
> underspecified" means Alice has to spend lots of effort to make sure that
> the software complies with 4.2 even if she has made zero changes to that
> software.
>
[snip]

I can talk about the license, but one of the things that seems to be a
persistent desire here is for analysis of hypotheticals that aren't based
in any concrete situation. As with any situation where we are talking about
rights in software (or data), the analysis *usually* ends up being
straightforward when the exact facts are known. But repeatedly in this
process, I have attempted to make assumptions based upon preexisting
knowledge, most likely implementations, etc, but have then been sharply
criticized because my response does not allow for the whole range of
possibilities.

Thus, I try to answer as well as I can, but I am trying to resist the
temptation to guess when the examples are underspecified. And this is why:

Bob has preexisting rights to US census data records because it is public
> information.  Alice has spent time and money cataloging that information so
> it could be found in a name search.  The service provides linkage from
> people in his tree to the historical US census data.
>

This adds new facts. It possibly changes the analysis. And it is still
underspecified.


> What needs to be provided?
>

The User Data:

“User Data” means any data that is an input to or an output from the Work,
where the presence of the data is necessary for substantially identical use
of the Work in an equivalent context chosen by the Recipient, and where the
Recipient has an existing ownership interest, an existing right to possess,
or where the data has been generated by, for, or has been assigned to the
Recipient.

Thanks,
Van




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