[copyleft-next] Network access to Corresponding Source

Stephen Michael Kellat skellat at fastmail.net
Sat Feb 9 19:33:21 UTC 2013


On 02/09/2013 01:52 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Stephen Michael Kellat
> <skellat at fastmail.net> wrote:
>
>> "Corresponding source shall be accessible via non-proprietary means of
>> access without charge, need for identity verification, or user traffic
>> logging."
>>
> That would seem to prohibit even basic logging of HTTP traffic, which
> would be unacceptable to most sysadmins and possibly unenforceable in
> some jurisdictions. I don't think that's what you intended, but the
> wording is sufficiently vague. "Non-proprietary" would also require
> greater clarity if it ever came to litigation.
>
I agree.  For now I wanted to throw a first draft out.  I'm still
thinking about ways to cleaning it up some within Richard's 25 word limit.

Stephen Michael Kellat



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