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

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Russell McOrmond
<russellmcormond at gmail.com> wrote:

It is an answer to the question of who the user of software is, FLOSS
or otherwise.  When you talk about third parties interacting with
software which are not the author and not the person running the
software, you are talking about interactions via an interface from
individuals who are not users of the software itself (the software is
never communicated to them, they don't have a copy, they don't execute
it: none of the bundle of rights of copyright or patent law are
involved).

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I may be mistaken, but the CAL is intended to apply to a distributed
ledger system, in which the only method for anyone to put data into
the system is to run a copy of the software and then participate in
the network. Thus each person who puts data into the system would in
fact be a user of the software. If the CAL's application is as you
describe (people supply data to a third party who is running the
software, who is then the software's 'user'), that's a very different
model.