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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: A more serious QPL-1.0 problem
From:       "Adam J. Richter" <adam () yggdrasil ! com>
Date:       1999-03-12 20:45:26
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>> = Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
>  = Jeremy Blosser <jblosser@firinn.org>

>> |       b. 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.
>> 
>>       This is a further restriction to the GPL, since the GPL does
>> not require such a permission grant, and it is illegal to publish
>> modifications to QPL'ed software without making such a grant.
>
>It is not illegal to publish modifications to QPL'ed software without
>making such a grant. 

	It is illegal for the practical purpose of distributing a useful
derivative work.  Per section 4 and 4c of the QPL, the machine-executable
modified work can only be distributed if the modifications are QPL'ed:

| 4. You may distribute machine-executable forms of the Software or
|machine-executable forms of modified versions of
|the Software, provided that you meet these restrictions: 
[...]
|    c. You must ensure that all modifications included in the
|       machine-executable forms are available under
|       the terms of this license. 

	Even if you do not have any desire for Troll to
incorporate your modifications into their official distribution,
these restrictions still apply.

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