Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free
luther@debian.org writes:
> Also, the code is free, no problem with that, you just can't link it with
> GPLed code, or more exactly you can't distribute the result of the linking
> with GPLed code, which is not something we are doing.
Debian is distributing them linked, with special scripts to pull the
.el file in and use it with Emacs.
> But anybody is free to make a QPL compatible emacs reimplementation, and the
> source code is then usefull to him. By removing them from the binary package
> is enouhg to make sure nobody actually links it with emacs code, or at least
> we don't facilitate it.
The last clause is the most correct.
And anyway, tuareg-mode is superior, and under the GPL.
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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