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Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL



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

> But the QPL doesn't require that any changes include your name. It's
> possible to provide those modifications to the general public without
> being traceable. It doesn't seem any riskier to the dissident than the
> GPL's provisions.

The dissident test is not about protecting dissidents from their evil
governments.  It is about protecting them from copyright infringement
claims for sane things they did while in the grip of their evil
governments.  The QPL allows some evil government to come after the
dissident for failure to disclose his works when under their control.

-Brian

-- 
Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu



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