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QPL impact analysis (was: Bug#258104: libphp-jpgraph: new uptream version (1.13))



On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:29:15AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > grep -rl "THE Q PUBLIC LICENSE" */copyright
> 
> > cervisia/copyright
> This is QPL-only, and a bug should likely be filed.  :sigh:
> (This is the real QPL, with Norway and Oslo.)
> 
[snip]
> These are mostly GPL-only, in fact.  (With a few LGPL, BSD, etc.)
> The confusion is due to the fact that all of the above and cervisia share a
> single source package and copyright file.
> 
> > libqt3c102-mt/copyright
[snip]
> These are all dual QPL-GPL.
> 
> > ocaml/copyright
> The "compiler" is QPL-only.  This is another modified QPL, governed by
> French law and with venue in Versailles.  ICK.
> 
> So out of that list, there are two QPL-only programs.

Mr. Nerode:

Could I goad you into doing a proper impact analysis of the "pure QPL" by
analyzing all the debian/copyright files in Debian main?

This isn't *quite* as bad as it sounds, as any copright file that doesn't
successfully case-insensitive match "QPL" or
"\<Q\>.*\<PUBLIC\>.*\<LICENSE\> can be automatically ruled out.

(I do presume that package maintainers maintain their debian/copyright
files responsibly.  Is this a crazy assumption?  Do package maintainers who
don't do so deserve any credibility on this mailing list?)

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     I'm a firm believer in not drawing
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     trend lines before you have data
branden@debian.org                 |     points.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Tim Ottinger

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