<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:19 PM VanL <<a href="mailto:van.lindberg@gmail.com">van.lindberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I am not sure how to respond when the hypothetical is "I am a person providing a network service, but I have no idea what I am doing, and I won't ask for help, so I might do something wrong."<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Your customer is implementing a blockchain as a distributed service in which all users interact peer-to-peer or broadcast (one-to-everyone). All are providing a network service, simply by spending the money in their cryptographic wallets or making income. They are all just users. There is no central operator theorized for Holochain.</div><div><br></div><div>And it's not that they are <i>afraid </i>to ask for help. It's that they can not afford the help.</div><div><br></div><div>The license can be used in other contexts, besides Holochain, where the user naively offers a network service simply by running the program peer-to-peer.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">I'll reiterate: For the ordinary developer, the CAL means:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3) a copy of any of the data used with
software that the person has given to you, should that data still be
available.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> This is entirely assuming that the software is not used in a networking context where users are peer-to-peer. In that case they can not be assumed to know what the data is or what their obligations are.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div></div>