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Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.



Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> This is not Free.  It gives these grants:
>> 
>> 1) Distribute with source, passing this license along.
>> 
>> 2) or, if you're Bob, under a proprietary license without source.
>> 
>> Now I have only one grant of permission.  I have to pass along 2, but
>> I don't get to take advantage of it at all.
>
> Why is granting of extra freedoms non-free?

It isn't.  The part of my message that you snipped made clear that
it's the requirement that I must grant extra permissions which is
non-free.

-Brian

-- 
Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu



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