Re: Termination clauses, was: Choice of venue

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

Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> I'd be particularly interested to hear your comments on the asymmetry
>> issue, which is most closely tied to a DFSG point: I can't distribute
>> modifications under the same license through which I received the
>> software.  The author used a license which gets him a license to use
>> my modifications in a proprietary way, but I don't get such a license
>> for *his* changes.
>
> Actually, you can distribute your changes under the same license: the
> QPL.  People who receive the software from you must grant you the same
> more-permissive license to their changes as well.  I do agree that the
> QPL is full of asymmetry, but I don't think most of it is a DFSG
> problem, apart from the "send changes upstream" clause and the "choice
> of venue" clause.

I don't think I can -- I have to distribute my changes as patches, so
the "initial author" is still the author of the baseline work, not me.



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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu