Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:24:30AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> OK. You believe QPL 3 is free, and you seem to have thought about it
> a bunch. So please explain to me how to do the following:
>
> 1. Modify a QPL'd work.
> 2. Because of the license under which I received the material,
> distribute patches representing the modifications.
> 3. Distribute them to the initial developer under the same license --
> that is, without letting him distribute changes to my patches (such
> as the application of them to the mainline source) except as
> further patches.
>
> I don't see a way to do that, but DFSG 3 says I should be able to
> distribute under the same license.
Notice that you can distribute patches under any licence you well please. Only
binary distribution of them force you to put them under the QPL, which is
clearly the same licence as upstream has given you.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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