[License-discuss] Taking A Brief Leave of Absence

2019-07-10 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat via License-discuss
Colleagues, Out of courtesy I write to state that I am setting the NOMAIL bit for myself on mailman for a little while. As a federal civil servant things are heating up a bit at work. We're facing a tri-partite budget crisis of the possible reintroduction of sequestration, a possible default

Re: [License-discuss] Data portability as an obligation under an open source license

2019-07-10 Thread VanL
Hi Russell, Thanks for your further explanation. There is a lot in your post to unpack, but I would like to address one baseline issue first. On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:57 PM Russell McOrmond wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:36 PM VanL wrote: > >> Hi Russell, >> >> You seem to be arguing abo

Re: [License-discuss] Data portability as an obligation under an open source license

2019-07-10 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Russell McOrmond 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 interact

Re: [License-discuss] Data portability as an obligation under an open source license

2019-07-10 Thread Russell McOrmond
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:36 PM VanL wrote: > Hi Russell, > > You seem to be arguing about a point that no one is making. > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 11:59 AM Russell McOrmond > wrote: > >> If I am a user of landscaping services, and the company providing that >> landscaping service happens to use M