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A comment on Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores. Parent comment

Re:Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed sof... by nabla9 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:56AM (#20113009)
It's almost like they used some kind of AI software to scan legal documents, then it found sentence fragments like " .. opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network ..".

You need artificial stupidity to misunderstand the "Interacting with Program through a computer network" in the way Square seems to understand it. Distributing software via online store is not interacting with the program.

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Re:Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed sof... by Beltiras on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:05AM (#20114656)
Some would maintain that being a legal analyst requires you to be artificially stupid because you are looking for loopholes and trying to avoid being trapped by ridiculous edge cases, whereas AI is trying to find a general solution that will work in 6-9s cases.
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Re:Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed sof... by EdwardDiego on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:20PM (#20116721)
> Distributing software via online store is not interacting with the program.

Has that been tested in a court yet? If it hasn't, then a lawyer would immediately see risk.

I mean, look at Oracle vs Google on whether or not an API is copyrighted.

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