Re: Summary : ocaml, QPL and the DFSG.
Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
>>On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:33:21PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
>>> To be honest, I'd expect that the given example wouldn't be a problem -
>>> aren't license terms that would compel illegal behaviour generally held
>>> unenforcable?
>>
>>Probably, but you're still working against the author's wishes in that
>>circumstance. I'd rather a licence that didn't try and compel me to break
>>the law in the first place.
>
> If the author wishes us to break the law, then I don't think we have any
> obligation to follow the author's wishes.
Yes, but we can follow both the author's wishes and the law by not
distributing such software.
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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