Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
On 2004-07-15 02:25:50 +0100 Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
[...] For almost every license discussion
on -legal, there is little discussion about what the actual software
does.
I consider this a bug, not a feature. We simply don't have the tools
for analysing licences without application to software, so nearly
always some software is used to facilitate the analysis, even
hypothetical software.
[...] I simply don't buy it that a license might
be free for one kind of program but not free for another.
Good. I think the argument you are referring to is this one:
Now, it is true that authors can add additional clauses to change the
status of a license. [...]
I don't agree that this is "using a different licence" though. It's
using the same licence in combination with some other stuff.
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