[License-discuss] Data portability as an obligation under an open source license

[VanL]

Quick clarification:

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com>
wrote:

> I don't see how this is similar at all to requiring the user to make
> data collected by an application available.
>

It is narrower than that. The specific term in the CAL doesn't cover all
data collected by an application. It is more constrained; it says that you
have to provide a user to whom you give access to the software a copy of
their own data that was provided as an input to or was an output of the
software.

It was designed to allow an individual the effective means to self-host or
to choose another host - in your parlance, "run" the software - without
losing anything by so doing.

Thanks,
Van
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