MJ Ray wrote: > I thank you for your personal view (which will be useful for software > where you are a licensor), but this is essentially the same anecdotal > advocacy which has been covered in previous discussions about AGPLv3. Well, you should not have raised the topic then. You speculate that a court will uphold that your overly strict interpretation is correct. That is even worse.
> The application download bandwidth costs tend to be disproportionately > larger than the user service bandwith I have trouble seeing how you arrive at this statement. For almost all services I use, this is not true, in particular not if I only offer application source to *users*. > and - as far as I can tell - it > is not generally accepted yet that providing a link to your project on > someone else's hosting site is sufficient (note that this bug simply > asks for such a statement from yocto-reader's copyright holders) and > so disruption of the hosting site requires disruption of user service. What does "generally accepted" mean to you here? I propose that it is no different in the sense that "I put my code on Savannah for you to download" is no different than "I buy a server with provider Foo and put the code there". This is not legal advice, but I don't think you have a court case over a few days that the download is broken, be it for a typo in the URL or because you have to switch the provider of this service. > If you know of general acceptance of hosting sites as sufficient, then > I suspect many people would be interested to learn of it. How can I know whether it is sufficient? If you want to, publish something that interests me under AGPL and sue me for violating your copyright when I deploy it and provide source via such a service. This is not legal advice, but you will lose that. Law is not mathematics, the scenario you are constructing here is not realistic. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
