Re: ASP loophole - where is the line
Scripsit Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:08:10PM -0800, Mark Rafn wrote:
> > The challenges:
> > In which cases should Joe be forced to give his program to his customer?
> IMO none of them: distributing software to customers is too significant
> a technical burden over and above presenting the output of software
> to customers.
> Distributing the source just once, to a single person or group (eg, the
> upstream author/development community, Debian, the FSF, a government
> organisation like the patent office) and giving them rights to freely
> redistribute the source effectively solves the ASP loophole too,
That's sidestepping the issue. Now: In which of Mark's cases should
Joe be forced to give his program to the upstrem author, Debian, the
FSF, or the government?
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