[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[VanL]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:01 PM Pamela Chestek <pamela at chesteklegal.com>
wrote:

> [snip bit about synthetic performance right in AGPL]
>
> I assume you mean the AGPL, but only if the software has been modified.
> Under the CAL, one cannot simply run the software without the licensee
> having an obligation. Is it a principle of open source software that one
> should be able to simply run software free of any obligations?
>

If that is the principle, then the AGPL fails that principle. I do not see
anywhere an articulable difference between a synthetic performance right
and one that calls it out on its face.

Thanks,
Van
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