Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:48:35AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> > 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.
But is is supposed to mean the same thing though.
> 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.
Which is why i am removing them from the binary packages until upstream
changes his mind.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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