Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
>
>> * Licenses like the QPL, which compel me to give somebody more rights
>> to my work than I had to his, are not Free. They are not compatible
>> with DFSG 3.
>
> This is where you lose me. How is that incompatible with DFSG 3? If
> the license says that Entity X gets extra rights (perhaps being the
> author of the original software), what prevents Author Y from
> releasing modifications under the same license terms ("Entity X gets
> extra rights to modifications")?
Nothing. And I'm happy to grant permissive licenses to INRIA/Cristal,
Best Practical, or others who not only distribute their software, but
manage free software projects which incorporate change from the
community.
But the requirement that I *must* license under those terms is a
non-Free requirement.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
