Re: Anton's amendment
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:38:24PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:
>
> > Any patch file for A is a work based on A. The copyright law forbids
> > the independent distribution of such works unless the license of A
> > explicitly permits it. I don't know of any license that permits such
> > distribution (includingly the old Qt license).
>
> "You may make modifications to the Software and distribute your
> modifications, in a form that is separate from the Software, such as
> patches"
>
> In the context of the QPL, "Software" refers to the original, unmodified
> software. How, precisely, does that forbid me from distributing a patch
> that contains elements of work A and work B when both are released under
> the QPL?
Yes, I was wrong about this property of QPL. On the other hand the
combination of the following two requirements of QPL is enough to make
the combined works impossible:
You may distribute machine-executable forms [provided that you]
ensure that all modifications included in the machine-executable
forms are available under the terms of this license.
When modifications to the Software are released under this license,
a non-exclusive royalty-free right is granted to the initial
developer of the Software to distribute your modification in future
versions of the Software provided such versions remain available
under these terms in addition to any other license(s) of the
initial developer.
Our discussion became too complicated and I am not sure on what we
agree and on what we disagree. I will try to explain my current
opinion in a separate message and if we have some disagreement we can
continue from there.
Anton Zinoviev
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