Re: Bug#227159: ocaml: Worse, the QPL is not DFSG-free
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> Well, what is it you want to do ? You are just angry that the licence is not
> BSD and that you can do anything you want with it, that's it. Seriously, no
> sympathy from me, as you clearly intented to make proprietary modifications.
No, I'd be happy with a Free copyleft. For example, if the OCaml
compiler were licensed to me under the GNU GPL, I'd be very happy.
Then I'd be able to make the modifications I want, link it with the
proprietary crap I have to link it with, and distribute that to the
people I'm working with.
I could do this in accord with the GPL, because all the people I'm
working with have freedom with respect to the proprietary crap. But I
can't do this under the QPL, because I might be forced to send the
proprietary crap back to INRIA, or to give INRIA a license to license
my code in commercial ways. I don't have the right to do either of
those things, so I can't use the QPL'd software for what I'm doing.
And as I write this, I realize that I've said this to you before in
this thread. Hm.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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