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

[VanL]

Hi Russell,

Thank you! I appreciate your patient responses to my various questions.
This was very helpful for me in helping pin down your objection. While we
may not agree on all the points, it is important for me to understand each
objection to the CAL so as to see if I can respond to it in some way.

Based on what I am reading, you believe that the AGPL is incompatible with
FLOSS values, so a license that attempts to 'be a better AGPL' (among other
things), you also consider incompatible with FLOSS values. This is a
reasonable and logical point of view, and I appreciate you expressing it.

Unfortunately, in this specific case, it seems there is a fundamental
disagreement that cannot be resolved through modified drafting. While I
have various reservations about the AGPL, I do not agree that the AGPL is
inconsistent with FLOSS values, nor with the right of authors to choose
this particular tradeoff in the copyleft-to-permissive spectrum.

Thanks,
Van
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