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

[VanL]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 9:18 PM Nigel T <nigel.2048 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A SaaS license is intended to be applied to software that is seen and used
> by third parties.
>
> It is disingenuous for you to imply otherwise.
>
> Many non-developers have set up their own content management system like
> Wordpress on their own servers.  If Wordpress was CAL instead of GPL none
> of those users would be able to use WordPress because it’s unlikely that
> WordPress is fully compliant under the terms of 4.2.
>


This is an illuminating example. If WordPress was CAL licensed, then all
those people hosting their own blogs on WordPress would have to provide a
link to or copy of the source code they were using, but that is it. Why?
Because they would not be hosting the user data of random readers. The
outcome would be essentially the same as the AGPL.

Someone would only need to provide additional user data if they did more
than host their own blog, but instead moved into the blog hosting business.

Thanks,
Van


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