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[Aldryic C'boas]

[..] I do question what you mean by the bolded part above. How can the software developer be liable in any way for what a hosting company's client hosts on a webserver running the developer's software?

Nah, that was one of my personal reasons for wanting to disallow adult content.  I was speaking as a BuyVM tech there, not necessarily talking about Litespeed's position in particular.

 

[lbft]

Oh, and since the free speech topic came up, I suppose this PSA from XKCD is mandatory:

Just because it isn't an illegal limitation on free speech doesn't mean it's not a limitation on free speech. Free speech is not exclusively a legal concept, it's also a social one.

They're entitled to put whatever terms they want in their license. I'm entitled to call them dicks for their (legal but not IMHO moral) limitation on speech via their product in a forum which chooses to allow me to voice that opinion. And most importantly, I'm entitled to choose to not use their product and they're entitled to completely ignore me. Legally, that's free speech at work.

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

Gotta be careful how far you take that, though... otherwise you can use extreme examples of "I made this gun (LS), but I don't want people to shoot each other with it (host porn)".  Then you'd be arguing that me asking you not to shoot mtwiscool (and beat him with a shovel instead) is limiting your freedom of speech.

Even leaving legality behind.. it's more the concept that they made the tool, and thus can outline it's intended uses.  Now, if they started telling you that you couldn't use Apache to host porn?  Yeah, that's an uncalled for limitation.

 

[lsmichael]

I'm more willing to give their webserver another go as long as they continue to not enforce their EULA (I laughed a little as I typed that).

My only real gripe with the EULA is that it is essentially saying "when you buy this tool you agree to only use this tool in certain cases", it's like leasing a hammer and agreeing that you will not use the hammer to build a doghouse for a certain breed of dog (except in this case if the hammer is taken away from you then you have to recompile a new hammer so your clients can stay online).

Yes, I 100% understand that as the developers they can put whatever they want in their EULA but that doesn't mean I can't rant about it. I do appreciate that the EULA doesn't appear to apply to their Open Source version which is nice and sticks to the Open Source ideology of utilizing a tool for anything your mind can dream up.

Basically, we recognize that we can't go around checking peoples' dog houses to make sure they didn't use their LSWS hammers to build dog houses for their chihuahuas. (Don't build a dog house for your chihuahua. A chihuahua is not a dog. Or, at least, it's not a real dog.) That would just be impossible and a waste of our time.

And, for OpenLiteSpeed, well, open source licensing requires that you allow people to use it however they want as long as they don't incorporate it into a closed source product. And we couldn't create an open source version without making it, well, open source.