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    docs(license): state that free public hosting still needs a commercial license (MUL-5558) (#6296) · 10746ad3
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    * docs(license): state that free public hosting still needs a commercial license (MUL-5558)
    
    Condition 1a's operative sentence restricts providing a hosted service to
    third parties without qualifying it by commerciality, but clause 1's
    preamble frames the whole section around commercial use, so a reader can
    argue that a free public instance escapes (a). A downstream fork asked
    exactly this question, which is evidence enough that the ambiguity is real.
    
    Say it directly: hosting for third parties is restricted whether or not a
    fee is charged. Free hosting is the substitution risk the condition exists
    to price, so leaving it to inference is the wrong default.
    
    Also state the other half explicitly: publishing a fork's source is not a
    hosted service and needs no commercial license, but it conveys no hosting
    right downstream — each operator needs its own.
    
    This ports the net content of commit ae73ad1e3 (stranded on the merged
    PR #6197 branch, whose LICENSE predates #6206) onto the current Multica
    License structure.
    
    Co-authored-by: default avatarmultica-agent <github@multica.ai>
    
    * docs(license): drop the relicensing implication from the source-distribution bullet (MUL-5558)
    
    Review found two defects in the fork-distribution bullet:
    
    - "publishing a fork under an open-source license" could be read as
      permitting the fork to be relicensed as a whole. An OSD-compliant
      license cannot carry the hosting restriction, so that reading would
      contradict condition 3(d)'s requirement to deliver the complete
      Multica License on redistribution. Describe the act (publishing the
      fork's source) instead of a licensing regime.
    - "remains subject to conditions (b) and (c)" enumerates too narrowly,
      implying Part II and condition 3 do not apply. Say "all applicable
      terms of this Multica License" with an illustrative reference instead.
    
    Co-authored-by: default avatarmultica-agent <github@multica.ai>
    
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    Co-authored-by: default avatarBohan-J <bohan@devv.ai>
    Co-authored-by: default avatarmultica-agent <github@multica.ai>
    10746ad3
    docs(license): state that free public hosting still needs a commercial license (MUL-5558) (#6296)
    Bohan Jiang authored
    
    
    * docs(license): state that free public hosting still needs a commercial license (MUL-5558)
    
    Condition 1a's operative sentence restricts providing a hosted service to
    third parties without qualifying it by commerciality, but clause 1's
    preamble frames the whole section around commercial use, so a reader can
    argue that a free public instance escapes (a). A downstream fork asked
    exactly this question, which is evidence enough that the ambiguity is real.
    
    Say it directly: hosting for third parties is restricted whether or not a
    fee is charged. Free hosting is the substitution risk the condition exists
    to price, so leaving it to inference is the wrong default.
    
    Also state the other half explicitly: publishing a fork's source is not a
    hosted service and needs no commercial license, but it conveys no hosting
    right downstream — each operator needs its own.
    
    This ports the net content of commit ae73ad1e3 (stranded on the merged
    PR #6197 branch, whose LICENSE predates #6206) onto the current Multica
    License structure.
    
    Co-authored-by: default avatarmultica-agent <github@multica.ai>
    
    * docs(license): drop the relicensing implication from the source-distribution bullet (MUL-5558)
    
    Review found two defects in the fork-distribution bullet:
    
    - "publishing a fork under an open-source license" could be read as
      permitting the fork to be relicensed as a whole. An OSD-compliant
      license cannot carry the hosting restriction, so that reading would
      contradict condition 3(d)'s requirement to deliver the complete
      Multica License on redistribution. Describe the act (publishing the
      fork's source) instead of a licensing regime.
    - "remains subject to conditions (b) and (c)" enumerates too narrowly,
      implying Part II and condition 3 do not apply. Say "all applicable
      terms of this Multica License" with an illustrative reference instead.
    
    Co-authored-by: default avatarmultica-agent <github@multica.ai>
    
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    Co-authored-by: default avatarBohan-J <bohan@devv.ai>
    Co-authored-by: default avatarmultica-agent <github@multica.ai>
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