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Re: Bug#173601: ITP: jpgraph -- OO Graph Library for PHP



On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:34:22PM -0500, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> Waitaminnit.  Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the QPL a Free
> Software license?  I didn't do that much of a careful search, but I
> googled for "QPL DFSG" and found a bunch of hits that make it look like
> the QPL is considered Free.  If so, then why shouldn't jpgraph go into
> main?  The "commercial" clause is no more obnoxious than a
> GPL/talk-to-me dual license, as it applies only in the case of
> closed-source use.
> 
> What am I missing?

Is this the same license that was just discussed here?

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200212/msg00186.html

It seems to disallow private modifications (6c), which, as I understand it, is
a DFSG requirement.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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