fossas
Impact on third-party hosting providers
I came across this objection that leaves me curious:
The inclusion of the Commons Clause in a software product can also lead to some novel results. For example, someone hosting a free copy of a software product containing a “substantial” amount of Commons Clause software on their own server for their internal use would not be in violation of its terms. But a Cloud provider hosting the same software for the same customer would be violating the copyright of the developer. And in either case, a third-party service provider might engage in conduct that violates the license.
(Source: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/articles/commons-clause-helpful-new-tool-or-end-open-source-we-know-it)
If I were to download a codebase and pay a third-party provider (e.g. AWS) to host it for my private use (e.g. an EC2 instance), would that third-party host be in violation of the clause?
That doesn't seem reasonable to me.
If it were in violation of the clause, that would mean that running it using anything that is provided to you as a service would be in violation of the clause. By this logic we could then conclude that running it anywhere (so long as you are not redis-labs itself) would be in violation of the clause if you are not privately generating the electricity to run your machine.
