Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:44:39PM +0200, J�r�me 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. -- J�r�me Marant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
