On "external deployment"
On "external deployment"
Posted Oct 31, 2002 3:23 UTC (Thu) by dthurston (guest, #4603)In reply to: preliminary exposition of RPSL by Peter
Parent article: "Helix DNA Client" source released
It's not an oversight that this is a EULA rather than a GPL-style copyright license. In particular, the definition of "external deployment" in the RPSL covers situations that are not covered by copyright law:
1.7 "Externally Deploy" means to Deploy the Covered Code in any way that may be accessed or used by anyone other than You ...
This would include, for instance, putting up a web page that takes a Real file, decode it, and deliver it in some other format; this is a use that does not require making any copies of the code or binary, and so is not covered under copyright law.
On the other hand, I'm a little surprised that there doesn't seem to be any restriction against someone accepting the license, downloading the code, and posting it again, sans EULA.
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