Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:51, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> > The GPL makes it harder to assert freedom because you need to spend more
> > time investigating subtle license interactions.
>
> Easily shown to be false -- if you accept patch clauses as Free, then
> you're clearly not concerned about merging multiple works. So you
> only have one license for the work from which you inherit, the GPL.
What? That doesn't follow at all. Even ignoring that, you're still
wrong. You have no guarantee that upstream hasn't done something that is
assumed to breach the GPL, such as depending on a BSDed library that
happens to link against OpenSSL. If the code had been under the BSD
license, the number of possible conflicts you have to check would have
been smaller and thus easier.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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