Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>>On 2004-07-19 11:38:23 +0100 Matthew Garrett 
>><mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>> The GPL discriminates against people on
>>> desert islands who have a binary CD but not a source one.
>>
>>I must have missed that one. How?
>
> Because they can't give any of the contents to their washed-up
> companion.

That person has either deleted his copies of the source or failed to
ask for them; either way, it's his own fault.  Alternately, somebody
upstream of him has violated the copyright by not obeying the
license.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu