[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Kevin P. Fleming]

In our analysis at Bloomberg, we settled on the stricter
interpretation for the reasons hinted at by Bruce; we cannot guarantee
that *only* employees would be the ones accessing an internal instance
which may contain modifications; contractors, interns, vendor
representatives, etc. all may end up having access to such an
instance, so it's safer to assume that anyone who accesses it would be
eligible to receive a copy of the modified source code under the terms
of the AGPL. Thus we don't make any modifications which we would not
be willing to publish; at least this allows us to deploy AGPL-covered
software internally when such software is the best tool for the task
at hand, rather than running away from it screaming like most
companies do :-)

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:45 PM Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:
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> >>From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org] On Behalf Of VanL
> >>Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 10:17 AM
> >>To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> >>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations
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> >>The difference is that the AGPL is overbroad to whom licenses must be offered. Here is the first paragraph of Section 13, with emphasis added:
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> >>Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.
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> I guess I don’t see that employees of a corporation accessing code through that corporation’s internal network is “remote interaction.” Or is the argument that it becomes so as soon as the employer offers external access to the network when employees work from home?
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