Re: Sleepycat license with SaaS restriction

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> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 08:33:02AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> It's not really clear how the additional sentence modifies "these
> requirements". 

It does not modify "these requirements" at all. It states, that there are no exceptions
to providing source code to the user in every case. (SaaS is only one example)

> I suppose it suggests that the author equates "running
> in a SaaS configuration" as equivalent to "redistribution". This
> degree of restrictiveness is difficult to reconcile with either GPLv2
> or GPLv3.

There is no restrictiveness with respect to using the software, if source code is provided to the 
user.

> I am also mindful of the interpretive principle I used to occasionally
> espouse, essentially that we should scrutinize especially closely the
> conditions of any bespoke copyleft license (or standard copyleft
> license apparently supplemented by bespoke informal restrictive
> interpretive statements), where the business model of the licensor is
> some variant of 'proprietary relicensing', as (it seems) here.

Cryptlib is dual-licensed. Only the GPL-compatible license is used not the 
commercial one, which is independent from the license used for cryptlib in
Fedora.
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