Marketing Tor (Was Re: For those using Tor with windows)

Jeffrey F. Bloss jbloss at tampabay.rr.com
Wed Nov 16 13:24:13 UTC 2005


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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:48 am, Nick Mathewson wrote:

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>      unless I'm missing something, this is in violation of clause 3 of
>      the GPL.

Speaking of the law, what would be your legal and/or ethical 'spin' on the 
proposition that someone would set up multiple Tor clients and sell access to 
them as a feature of a subscription "anonymity" service? This scenario 
assumes none of these "access points" are giving anything back to the Tor 
network. That clients' SSH connections are simply being piped through a local 
copy of Tor running in client mode.

I don't see where this would be "illegal" under the GPL or your own LICENSE, 
but maybe I'm missing something. I believe it's ethically abhorrent to use 
free software for profit like this, but I don't see any real recourse.

Thoughts?

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Hand crafted on November 16, 2005 at 08:02:29 -0500

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