Re: Web application licenses

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Josh Triplett:

> How about something vaguely like:
>
> """
> If you make the software or a work based on the software available for
> direct use by another party, without actually distributing the software
> to that party, you must either:
>
> a) Distribute the complete corresponding machine-readable source code
> publically under this license, or
> b) Make the source code available to that party, under the all the same
> conditions you would need to meet in GPL section 3 if you were
> distributing a binary to that party.
> """

I can understand the rationale behind such clauses, but I consider
them a severe threat to free software.  Right now, I'm not forced to
deal with license issues if I'm not distributing anything, and I
really like this aspect.