Re: QPL non-DFSG compliance? What future for OCaml in Debian?
Quoting Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:44:39PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm back from vacation and I've just read the debian-legal archive
> > where there seem to be a concensus about QPL being not DFSG-compliant.
>
> I didn't see any such consensus, and nobody replied to my objections.
>
> > Sven, could you summarize please? What about those emacs files?
> > What about upstream?
>
> There seems to be two critics :
>
> 1) point 6c of the QPL fails the chinese dissident or desert island tests.
>
> Apart from the the dubious justification of those tests (i would much have
> prefered particular DFSG points), i believe that the licence sets
> implicitly
> the cost of data transfer to the person requiring the sources. This is
> mentioned in the other points where source transfer is mentioned, but not
> here, so there is a grey area. If the 6c were explicitly mentioning this,
> any objection should fall by itself. Maybe the ocaml team may add such a
> clarification ?
>
> 2) the court of venue issue. All lwasuits must be filled at Versailles.
>
> Well, i am no lawyer, but i hardly find this non-free, and the proponent of
> making this non-free are heavily user biased, even if the removal of this
> point would make it impossible for the upstream author to sue licence
> breakers in far away countries, or even just in the US with the joke of a
> legal system they have there. Also, i get the impression that a french
> court
> may be much less inclined to allow bullshit claims than an US court, so
> this
> is not really a problem. I have the feeling that any licence which means
> you
> have to sue in the US would be even less free than that, since it means
> only
> people with enough money to pay the lawsuit gets to have their licence
> enforced, but this is only my own opinion.
Thanks for explaining. All I can say is that those license issues are
tiring :P I used to be subscribed to debian-legal but I unsubscribed
after getting personal attacks.
--
Jérôme Marant
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