[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Bruce Perens]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:55 AM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> This breaks the embargo. (Kudos to, IIRC, Florian Weimer for discovering
> this… “gem”.) It is therefore not possible, so it’s not possible to run
> AGPL-licenced software with security support.


This is not necessarily a bad thing. If you look at how RHEL embargoes
security information to only paid Enterprise customers, on software they
don't own, you can see the problem. You only like sequestering security
information when it's you sequestering it from script kiddies, not when
it's being sequestered from you.

IMO the right to sequester "private modifications" went obsolete as soon as
there was SaaS. It's not in the OSD and I never considered it fundamental
to Free Software or Open Source. To the extent that Richard Stallman
believes it's a fundamental right, I think he's mistaken and needs to
modify his policy.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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