Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> The problem is that it's not clear what the dissident test was made for.
>
>I think one purpose is to clarify the kinds of uses that DFSG #6
>covers. If you can't even use it in those kinds of situations, then
>you don't have a free license.
Surely it's not the license that restricts the activities of the
dissident, it's the local authorities? If my government decrees that
anyone producing works that oblige source to be distributed with
binaries will be shot, that doesn't mean that the GPL discriminates
against a field of endeavour.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
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