<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Pam,</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the late reply.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 8:05 AM Pamela Chestek <<a href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The Holochain website talks about doing things like running a social <br>
network client. Would that social network software have to be under an <br>
open source license?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This comes down to the licensor's choice. If the licensor used the CAL without the Combined Works Exception, then this would have the effect of ensuring that the software stayed open source - modulo standard copyright rules that would tend to allow different licenses as the link between the CAL-licensed framework and other software became more attenuated.</div><div><br></div><div>In the case of Holochain, Holo intends to use the Combined Works exception to allow differently-licensed software "on top" of the CAL-licensed framework. As an analogy, think of the external vs. internal interfaces split already used in the Linux kernel.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Van<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>