Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk>]

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Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> QPL requirement: if you pass on binaries, you must pass on source to 
> both the recipient and upstream. You claim this is a fee.

Well, this is non-free as upstream may have died, and if you can't
distribute without distributing to upstream, it makes forking
impractical too. If upstream is dead then you're fully knackered though.

> GPL requirement: if you pass on binaries, you must pass on source to the 
> recipient. You claim this is not a fee.

Well, the recipient can't be dead, otherwise they wouldn't be a
recipient :)

> I entirely fail to understand the difference here. In both cases I have 
> had to pass something of value on to people I might not have wanted to 
> pass it on to.

If you don't want to pass it on, don't put it under a Free Software
licence *grin*. (Or use the BSD style licences).

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Brett Parker
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