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

[Christine Hall]

That is a distinction I need to mull over.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/2/19 3:22 PM, VanL wrote:
> Quick clarification:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com 
> <mailto: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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