Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

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

Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> writes:

> Matthew Palmer writes:
>>On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 10:48:23PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am against it in principle. Having them subscribe to the debian-*-changes
>>> mailing list is an active effort of their part, while we willingly push data
>>> to them.
>>
>>So you're now not OK with the QPL's requirement that we push data to the
>>initial developer of a QPL'd work, I take it, since you're against Debian
>>pushing data to the US government?
>
> The US government and the initial developer are rather different - the
> initial developer at least has some reasonable link to the software.

Not true.  Since changes can only be distributed as patches, I might
have patched out everything the original developer wrote, but he's
still the initial developer under the QPL.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu