On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 10:25:17PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 06:26:02PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > The QPL doesn't prevent forking, but the requirement to distribute > > changes to the original source as patches makes a fork significantly > > more difficult. This restriction of the QPL is DFSG-free, but the other > > FWIW, I'm among those who believe this is a serious error, and that the > DFSG should be amended to correct it. Freedom to fork is a fundamental > to free software, and requiring patches is an onerous and unacceptable > burden on that freedom. Amen! -- G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. branden@debian.org | Chemistry is really physics. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is really math.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature