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

[Henrik Ingo]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, 03:29 VanL, <van.lindberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> The use or operation of the software is not dependent on user’s customer
>> provided data being present...
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> This is not really correct, if you think about it.
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> I don't think it is debatable to say that some (most?) software works
> differently in the presence of particular data. The subroutines the run are
> different; the displayed interface may be different; the state of the
> software is *different.* Because the accumulated state is different, the
> actual functioning of the software, as experienced by the user, is
> different.
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> I agree that the user has the ability to get back to the place where they
> were by re-entering the data and re-doing any associations made. But the
> latent potential for the software to work the same way is not the same as
> the software actually functioning the exact same way.
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Taking this argument further, the user can also rewrite all the code from
scratch, and therefore all copyleft licenses (and open source) are
unnecessary in general.

Henrik

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