Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:24:30AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> OK. You believe QPL 3 is free, and you seem to have thought about it >> a bunch. So please explain to me how to do the following: >> >> 1. Modify a QPL'd work. >> 2. Because of the license under which I received the material, >> distribute patches representing the modifications. >> 3. Distribute them to the initial developer under the same license -- >> that is, without letting him distribute changes to my patches (such >> as the application of them to the mainline source) except as >> further patches. >> >> I don't see a way to do that, but DFSG 3 says I should be able to >> distribute under the same license. > > Notice that you can distribute patches under any licence you well please. Only > binary distribution of them force you to put them under the QPL, which is > clearly the same licence as upstream has given you.
No, I'm not talking about the copyleft in QPL4. I'm talking about QPL 3b, and its compelled grant of a more permissive license to the initial developer than I received from him. I can't give him my modifications under the same license under which I received the work from him. That means this conflicts with DFSG 3. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]