On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:05:09AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If they did not pick on this, there is sane reason to say this is > > ok. > > I don't think that is a safe assumption to make in the general case, > and I know it doesn't apply here. > > Immutable notices have been rejected from Debian before, for this same reason.
So propose something reasonable with as little as possible change of wording. > > > We should concentrate on the real problems, namely the clause of > > venue and QPL 6c, which i have ground to believe will be no problem > > for upstream anymore, altough i have no official answer yet, and QPL > > 3b, which still remains problematic. > > Does that actually mean QPL 6 will be removed from the OCaml license? > Oh Frabjuous Day! > > Or just QPL 6c? That would not be frabjuous, but I still might > callay. The jury is still out, but there is chance that it may move in the good direction. Now, i think removing just QPL 6c is better than removing all of QPL 6, since QPL 6a+b allow you to distributed linked work under any free licence, while you would have to QPL it under QPL3 only. > >> My assumption is that they wanted to ban certain modifications of > >> their work, and were more concerned about maximizing credit than > >> writing free software. > > > > They just wanted to make sure someone didn't remove the copyright notice, or > > alter it to remove older contributors. Adding new contributors should be > > permitted, but that is the extent of it. > > Yes, but a ban on removing all and any copyright notices is not Free. > It's fine for an author to require that there *be* a copyright notice, > but forbidding translation or addition is not Free. So, find a wording saying that you can only add or translate or something such. > Requiring a specific dialog box isn't either -- it doesn't translate > to systems without a GUI. Requiring specific text output also isn't > free, as it doesn't work with non-interactive or embedded systems. What has that to do with it here ? Friendly, Sven Luther
