Re: GPL v3 article - is this the public performance idea?

Ben Tilly wrote:
> Mike Olson of Sleepycat is quoted in:
> 
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3495981
> 
> There is a nice little flamewar on /. about the result.  Everyone and his dog
> thinks that the change in terms is impossible, nobody would go for it.
> 
> Personally I'm wondering whether this is the idea that Bruce Perens
> mentioned to me several years ago, that hosting a website is a public
> performance, copyright law gives copyright owners the right to control
> public performances, and the GPL v2 does not grant the right to
> publically perform works.  Therefore if the GPL v3 did grant this right,
> it could use it to push Amazon etc to share source code just like the
> GPL currently pushes proprietary software vendors to do so.
> 

Bruce Perens in 1999:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/10/msg00144.html

Which I guess eventually lead to the affero gpl (agpl) license:
http://www.affero.org/oagf.html

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