Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 05:20:46PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 03:30:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:19:19AM -0400, Joe Moore wrote:
> > > That certainly makes the QPL more attractive to me, as a
> > > non-original-author. But I'm afraid I don't understand why any original
> > > author would use it.
> >
> > Indeed, so by arguing that way, we could bring this clause to be modified by
> > the upstream author, could we not ?
>
> You think that taking the concerns of debian-legal to OCaml upstream would
> cause you to lose credibility with them, but tricking them into changing the
> licence by saying the licence means something that it doesn't wouldn't lose
> you any credibility?
Why are you assuming trickery and bad faith? That really sets back your
own credibility. Pointing out unintended consequences is a time-honored
way of getting authors to change their licenses.
That you don't *agree* with Sven's interpretation doesn't mean you get
to accuse him of dishonesty.
Richard Braakman
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