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Re:RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0 by geofft on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:42AM (#13580419)
What does "interacting with it remotely through a computer network" mean?

If I take some caching algorithm from RethinkDB and put it in my fork of OpenSSL, do I have to make it possible for everyone who connects to my SSL server to download the source of my fork? Do I need to start stuffing the URL of corresponding source into my certificate?

I'd hope the answer is no, but what in the license makes it clear that the answer is no?

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Re:RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0 by manarth on Monday February 06, 2017 @06:06PM (#13585181)
In general, it's takes a court decision to make it clear - set a precedent - on what's expected.

As the AGPL hasn't been tested in court, we're all mostly guessing.

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