After reading the RPSL last night, I decided that the provisions it makes for "External Deployment" are a good thing. RealNetworks is doing what has been discussed for many months by GPL advocates, namely bringing under the reciprocity provisions the "use" of an open source work to provide external services over the Internet.
I decided to borrow some of their wording and added an external deployment provision to the OSL. Here is the clause I added: 5. External Deployment. The term "External Deployment" means the use or distribution of the Original Work or Derivative Works in any way such that the Original Work or Derivative Works may be accessed or used by anyone other than You, used to provide any services to anyone other than You, or used in any way to deliver any content to anyone other than You, whether the Original Work or Derivative Works are distributed to those persons, made available as an application intended for use over a computer network, or used to provide services or otherwise deliver content to anyone other than You. As an express condition for the grants of license hereunder, You agree that any External Deployment by You shall be deemed a distribution and shall be licensed to all under the terms of this License, as prescribed in section 1(c) herein. I have revised the OSL accordingly -- renumbering the following paragraphs -- and changed the date of the version (still in draft form). It is now posted at www.rosenlaw.com/osl.html. I continue to solicit your input and suggestions. /Larry Rosen -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3