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Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL



Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> You could look at it that way. On the other hand, if I release my
>> GPLed code under 3(b) then anyone who receives it can pass on the offer
>> I gave them (under 3(c)). I am then obliged to pass on my modifications
>> directly to people who I never provided binaries to. Is distribution
>> under 3(b) and 3(c) non-free?
>
>If that were the only way to distribute the code, then yes, that would
>be non-free.  Fortunately, we have 3(a).

In the absence of 3(a), the GPL would be non-free? Has this been
discussed here before?
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org



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