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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/2019 9:12 PM, Bruce Perens via
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<div dir="ltr">But would it not be sufficient in this case to
simply tell folks where you got the source, given that it's a
public repository? You didn't modify it yourself.</div>
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Not necessarily. The source code obligation says that the repository
must persist as long as I am using the software and for a year after
that. So do I keep checking the original source and make sure they
haven' t changed it and it's still the same software that I used?
What if they update and I don't? And to have to do that for a year
after I'm not even using the software? This avenue for compliance is
pretty burdensome.<br>
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Pam<br>
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Pamela S. Chestek<br>
Chestek Legal<br>
PO Box 2492<br>
Raleigh, NC 27602<br>
919-800-8033<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 6:09
PM Kevin P. Fleming <<a href="mailto:kevin%2Bosi@km6g.us"
moz-do-not-send="true">kevin+osi@km6g.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:52 PM Pamela Chestek <<a
href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>>
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> It's not the ease of compliance, it's the fact that
there is a compliance requirement at all when no other license
has one in the same circumstance.<br>
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The AGPL also imposes a compliance requirement in your
hypothetical<br>
situation. If you install an AGPL-licensed plugin in your
website (in<br>
any manner, even choosing it from a plugin repository offered
by the<br>
website software project's operators), and the users of your
website<br>
interact with that plugin over the network, then you are
obligated to<br>
provide the source code to your users if the copy you are
operating<br>
*has been modified*. It is not clear whether the license is
only<br>
triggered by modifications that you made, or by modifications
made by<br>
the party who provided the software to you, but if it is only<br>
triggered when *you* make modifications then there is a<br>
aircraft-carrier-sized escape hatch in the AGPL. In any case,
as the<br>
operator of the website you would need to be aware of this
requirement<br>
and be able to determine whether the copy you are operating
can be<br>
considered *modified*.<br>
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