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

[Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:07:36 -0400 Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:

> > Why not ? It would say : upstream can redistribute under the QPL and
> > any other licence that is considered DFSG-Free, including the BSD
> > licence.
> >
> > What do you find non-free in this ? 
> 
> It compels me to grant upstream a right which upstream will not grant
> me.  If that were symmetric, I would not object to this under DFSG 3.

Indeed.
It would still fail DFSG 3 and that's exactly what I was thinking about.

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