Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
> > Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > What is the difference between granting of extra permissions and
> > granting of extra freedoms?
>
> Nothing. Therefore, I require you to grant me a permissive license to
> all code you have ever written.
>
> Oh wait, that doesn't seem free to you? Why? Because it's a
> requirement. What's the difference between charity and tax? Tax is a
> requirement, charity is freely given.
That's not a fair example because all the code he has ever written is not a
derived work from the licensed code. Just because there are requirements of
people receiving the license to give up something does not make it non-free.
- David Nusinow
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