On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 12:55 PM Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Christine Hall dixit: > > > Open source licenses (again, according to my understanding -- folks with > > many years experience at OSI should correct me if I'm wrong) should > > apply only to the software being licensed, and the data collected by or > > stored within a software application is clearly not part of the software > > itself. > There is an important distinction here: The CAL does not apply to any data stored by the application. I agree that forcing user data to be licensed under a particular license would violate the OSD. However, that is not what the CAL does. *The CAL does not change the license on any user data*. The CAL just makes sure that user data is not withheld from the user. That is a key (and freedom-preserving) distinction. The CAL is not an "all your data is belong to us" license - it is a "the data that you use to interact with this software cannot be withheld from you" license. Thanks, Van
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