Am Mittwoch 21 November 2007 15:53:47 schrieb MJ Ray:
Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@fsfe.org wrote: [...]
You don't need permission from the copyright holder to let someone use your laptop for a few minutes. No more than you do for letting that person read your newspaper for a few minutes.
While the newspaper-borrowing is now well-established, I think the computer-borrowing one is a more recent change... by default, copyright law tends to deny things. It's not so long ago that permission to backup software was added to English law.
I'm disappointed by the refusal to discuss physical computer-borrowing when AGPL is about restricting network-based computer-borrowing.
Regards,
The AGPL is not about borrowing computers, or using some software at someone else's house, its about network access. If I develop this super-cool AJAX Web2.0 Future-Application and provide the source-code, THAN I WANT other poeple to have access to modifications. If you take that code and add some extra-features and get a deal with google that they integrate it with GMail, I WANT GMail-users to know, that they are using free software, I WANT them to get Source-Code access and I WANT them to have the right to offer those services themselves. The AGPL provides for this, the GPL doesnt. If you make your business of Application Services and don't want your users to get the code, than you are working against the common goal of software freedom and social solidarity.
Regards, Hannes