Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Brian Thomas Sniffen:

>>> The Free copyleft equivalents are not fees, merely limited grants of
>>> permission to distribute.
>>
>> And the QPL requirements are not fees either, they merely limit the
>> grants of permission to modify?
>
> Fortunately, this part is the core, and I was correct.  The QPL
> requirements are not limitations on modification -- they are
> requirements that if I modify in certain ways, I *must* then
> distribute and grant licenses.  So my argument does not work both
> ways.

But this is exactly the way copyleft works, not for modification but
for distribution.

I'm sorry but I can't understand your position.  Perhaps we should end
the discussion at this point, I won't be able to bring it any further.