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Re: Dissident versus ASP



Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:42:34AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > >     If your program is not distributed to anyone, then the license cannot
> > >     require you to distribute it to anyone (no matter how many people
> > >     use it or for what purpose, etc).
> > > Which is to say that, if accepted, the Dissident test and the practical
> > > concerns we have about providing source over SMS and such, imply that
> > > no free license can ever close the ASP loophole.
> > Since there are fifteen things floating around, each of which gets
> > called "the ASP loophole", it's hard to be certain.
> 
> Name one that it doesn't apply to?

Of the ones that I've seen, as far as I can tell, it would apply to
all the proposed methods of "closing the ASP loophole".  



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