Re: Should the ASP loophole be fixed? (Re: The Affero license)
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:33:12PM -0500, David Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:03, Mark Rafn wrote:
> > I'd far rather live with the loophole and accept that some people will
> > make money by running a program with unpublished changes.
>
> Of course, the issue is not money. The idea is that users of a program
> ought to be able to get the source code for that program. Users these
> days often use a program without ever having recieved a copy of it.
People that telnetted in to central servers, I think, fell into this
category even then.
> Nobody thought of this in 1991. But times are changing.
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