Re: ocaml, QPL and the DFSG : QPL 3b argumentation.
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:22:04PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> The law already makes it illegal to tamper with copyright notices; a
>> license doesn't need to say that in order to make it wrong to do so.
>> Perhaps it could just be left out?
>
> Given that lawyer wrote this licence, why did they add it. And in any case,
> what harm is there to do so ?
I don't know why they added it. Maybe you could ask them. The usual
reason is to make such a change not merely a crime, but also copyright
infringement, so as to extract punitive damages as well.
But as a side effect, it also makes a bunch of good things violate the
license -- like translating "Copyright (c) 2004 Bob Smith" to whatever
language is appropriate.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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