Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free

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

> Err, have you read the GPL licence recently ? If it is not specifically into
> every detail, i dont' know what is. There is specific text about binding and
> such, and it makes explicit mentions of distribution of a work linked with the
> GPLed work. 

There is not one mention of "link" in the GNU GPL.  There is not one
mention of "bind" or "bound".  I don't think you're even bothering to
make up consistent nonsense at this point.

There is this issue, though: it doesn't matter if I break up the .el
files in question into two apparently random bitstrings, send them
separately to the target machine, XOR them back together there, and
then compile them.  What matters is that I've built a complicated
machine for putting a compiled file linked with the internal Emacs API
on that system, and so infringed the copyright of the Free Software
Foundation unless I'm doing so within the bounds set by the GPL.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu