On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Russell McOrmond <russellmcorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
It is an answer to the question of who the user of software is, FLOSS or otherwise. When you talk about third parties interacting with software which are not the author and not the person running the software, you are talking about interactions via an interface from individuals who are not users of the software itself (the software is never communicated to them, they don't have a copy, they don't execute it: none of the bundle of rights of copyright or patent law are involved). --- I may be mistaken, but the CAL is intended to apply to a distributed ledger system, in which the only method for anyone to put data into the system is to run a copy of the software and then participate in the network. Thus each person who puts data into the system would in fact be a user of the software. If the CAL's application is as you describe (people supply data to a third party who is running the software, who is then the software's 'user'), that's a very different model. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
