Re: Bug#251885: ITP: cgal -- C++ library for computational geometry
Scripsit Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net>
> The other issue here is that the QPL is not a Free Software license
> at all. See the thread starting at
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00233.html> for
> details. The QPL requires that all changes are sent to the original
> author upon request, and that all license disputes are settled in
> Amsterdam City Court by the laws of the Netherlands. Both of these
> restrictions are non-DFSG-free.
Hm, is it even the genuine "QPL" that is being referred to? I seem to
remember that the choice of venue used be Oslo, Norway. Not that that
would be any better, of course.
> (Incidentally, the libcwd package which raised the issue of the QPL
> seems to have been uploaded to main even after that discussion concluded
> that the license was non-free.)
A "serious" bug should be filed, then.
--
Henning Makholm "We can hope that this serious deficiency will be
remedied in the final version of BibTeX, 1.0, which is
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