Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:20:00AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:
> 
> > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
> >
> >> Which, incidentally, is an issue.  If some user sends you a patch for
> >> O'Caml, you can't apply it, because then you'll be distributing
> >> software under the QPL, and trigger QPL 3b, which means you have to
> >> grant the initial author permission to relicense... but you aren't the
> >> copyright holder for the patch, and so can't grant that permission.
> >> 
> >> This ends up being not merely theoretically non-free, but a serious
> >> practical problem for Debian.
> >
> > This does not follow.  The patch's original author "releases" the
> > change by sending it to Sven (or whoever maintains the package in
> > question), triggering 3b.
> 
> Nope -- the patcher doesn't release his software under the QPL.  He
> doesn't transmit binaries to anyone at all.  But Sven does.  So the
> patcher doesn't trigger 3b, but Sven does.

Obviously, i can incorporate the patch only if it is under the QPL, or a
licence which allows me to QPL it, right ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther