[License-discuss] Trigger for licensee obigations

[Thorsten Glaser]

John Cowan dixit:

>On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:07 PM Bruce Perens via License-discuss <
>license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> wrote:
>
>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.
>
>I can't agree with you there.

Same from me.

>It's the instantiation of Freedom One: "The freedom to study how the
>program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish."

That’s also a good reason (but dissidents, etc. might have other
reasons).

Please don’t make Open Source mean the same as strong copyleft
(aka “we restrict your freedom to protect freedom”) and consider
the copycentre and Ⓕ Copyfree sides just as valid.

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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