Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:01:55AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Right, which indicates that we have nothing in principle against minor 
>> technical awkwardnesses.
>
>Patch clauses are not a "minor technical awkwardnesses"; they are a major,
>onerous hurdle to free software development.  They would be clearly and
>obviously (to me) non-free, without the special, explicit exception in
>DFSG#4.

So why are they free? "Because DFSG #4 says so" is answering an entirely
different question.

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