[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Smith, McCoy]

>>From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org] On Behalf Of VanL
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>>For example: I am a corporation, running modified AGPL software, in a way that is only accessible to my employees. Per the AGPL, I must give my employees code and rights to the modified version, even though the analysis relative to every other license is that this would be a private use. Further, I cannot in any way prevent my employees from exercising all rights under the AGPL, because that would be a further restriction. Thus, the AGPL has no private right of use for any modified version.

I’m curious how you arrive at this conclusion given that AGPL says “*Each licensee is addressed as ‘you’*. ‘Licensees’ and ‘recipients’ may be individuals *or organizations*.”

[although I will concede that AGPL does not explicitly state that an organization-licensee does not have obligations under the license to its own employees.  I’d consider that part of the Freedom Zero concept though, for that organization].
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