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Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL



Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:23:02PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Really? Wow. That's insane.
>
>Could you please explain "that's insane"?  It seems simple and noncontroversial
>that a free license can be non-free if certain key permissions are removed.
>
>(Without GPL3a, if I make any distribution of GPL code, I must archive that
>source for at least three years, which seems obviously non-free.)

It's a pain in the ass, but why should having responsibilities attached
to your use of freedoms be non-free?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org



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