Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com writes:
If you run it in such a way that other people have access to it - your housemates, your co-workers, etc - they're entitled to source.
If the AGPL really did have a concept of "private", those scenarios simply wouldn't come up, but it doesn't.
I think the answer is that it doesn't have to go in the licence because copyright laws have limits that exclude private use from needing copyright permission anyway.
This depends on local copyright law though, so I'm out of my depth.
If you want to avoid that liability - e.g., you have limited bandwidth on your hosting account - you have to put in strict access controls which prevent anyone except you from accessing the software. Hopefully you have the skills to do that and it doesn't interfere with the running of the software ;)
But this is the same for the GPL.
What if I made a modified version and uploaded it to my home dir on my remote box with the read permission is set to 7. Oops.
IMO, there would have to be some other pretty extreme circumstances involved for a judge to even consider hearing this case.