Re: the meaning of 'the same terms" in DFSG 3, and why the QPL fails it (was: An old question of EGE's)

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:

> DFSG 3 was intended to forbid licensors from placing themselves in a
> specially advantaged position.  If not, why doesn't DSFG 3 simply say:
> 
>   The license must allow modifications and derived works.
> 
> ...hmm?

Perhaps DFSG 3 is looking at it from the point of view of the receiver
of the modified work rather than the modifer: A creates a QPL work, B
modifies it and gives the modified version to C. Then C gets the
modified work under the same licence as the original work was
distributed. However, if you really want to know how DFSG 3 was
intended then you must talk to the people who wrote it.