The prohibition on providing the software as a service appears to conflict with, or at least be trivially bypassed by, section 9 which states that to run the so

The prohibition on providing the software as a service appears to conflict with, or at least be trivially bypassed by, section 9 which states that to run the software you don't have to accept the terms of the license. Section 9 conforms with the law as written: running the software, and making the copies needed to run it, are explicitly not an infringement of copyright (USC Title 17 section 117(a)(1) [cornell.edu]). If I don't have to accept the license to do something, I'm not bound by it's terms merely because I do that something. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117