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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: A more serious QPL-1.0 problem
From:       Jeremy Blosser <jblosser () firinn ! org>
Date:       1999-03-12 21:02:18
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Adam J. Richter [adam@yggdrasil.com] wrote:
> >> = 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:

While I agree that 4c is not at all desirable, I wouldn't agree that one
has to be able to distribute binary versions of a derivative work for it to
be useful.  You are still free to make a modification, license it under the
GPL, and distribute the source.

But yes, 4c really ought to be changed.  Troll wants it the way it is,
though, last I knew, so I'm not optimistic about it. -sigh-

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Jeremy Blosser   |   jblosser@firinn.org   |   http://jblosser.firinn.org/
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"Would you fight to the death, for that which you love?
                   In a cause surely hopeless ...for that which you love?"
                                             -- D. McKiernan, _Dragondoom_

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