Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com>]

On 2004-07-13 23:05:17 +0100 Matthew Garrett 
<mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> > It has an "archive all distributed copies until the expiration of 
> > copyright"
> > requirement (QPL#6 has no expiration!), which is far more onerous, 
> > IMO.
> As I said elsewhere, I'm unconvinced by that. At any point you can 
> avoid
> this by releasing the code to the general public. [...]

Can 6c be avoided entirely by the simple hack of a momentary general 
public release? I'll be surprised if that is the conclusion, 
especially given the annotations at 
http://www.trolltech.com/licenses/qpl-annotated.html

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