Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:09, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> No, it seems non-free because it's a contamination of other software,
> which is something we believe to be outside the scope of a free software
> license.
Hm. It is objectionable because it's a contamination, but I think
it's also objectionable because it's a requirement that distribution
of modifications be under a license the modifier didn't have.
In any case, a more direct answer is that your original question about
the difference between grants of permissions and freedoms is
irrelevant. I was and am talking about the difference between a grant
of extra permissions and a compelled grant of extra permissions, and
objecting to the compulsion as non-free.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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