Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> MJ Ray said on Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:24:26AM +0100,:
>
> > Personally, I'm not sure that is as much of a problem as the
> > requirement to distribute unpublished mods to a central authority on
> > request. I'd be interested to know whether this aspect of the tests is
> > grounded in the DFSG, and see that information added to the FAQ.
>
> At some point of generalisation, this becomes an issue of striking a
> balance between a particular user's right to keep his modifications to
> himself, and right of the community as a whole to have access to free
> software.
The point where this becomes that sort of issue is the point at which the
individual human user/modifier is actually distributing the modifications
to other people, though not necessarily to the public in general.
If the user is really doing stuff privately -- just for himself! -- and
happens to talk about it, he certainly shouldn't be forced to distribute it
before he's ready! This is no issue at all.
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