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

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

Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

>> This I can make sense of, and it bears no relation to any sense of the
>> phrase "derivative work" with which I am familiar.  Neither does it
>> relate to the "modifications" of which the QPL speaks.
>
> So you claim that once the original work incorporate a patch, then the result
> is not a derivative work of that patch ?

No, of course not.  If A is written, and B is a patch to A, and C is A
with the patch applied, then C is a derivative of A and B, and while B
*as a whole* is a derivative of A, many parts of it may be independent
works.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu