Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> Surely it's not the license that restricts the activities of the
>> dissident, it's the local authorities? If my government decrees that
>> anyone producing works that oblige source to be distributed with
>> binaries will be shot, that doesn't mean that the GPL discriminates
>> against a field of endeavour.
>
>The obvious difference is that there are no governments that have such
>laws, while there are plenty of real world scenarios where privacy is
>beneficial. The dissident test is merely a reasonable extreme case
>where that comes into play.
If there were, would we consider the GPL non-free?
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
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