On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:32:53PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: [compelled unrelated distribution] > For DFSG 5: What about the group of people that is in countries that > impose an embargo or export restrictions on countries the "initial > developer" is in. > Consider something like a ssl-library was under this licence in the > times where those were more strictly handled and the "initial developer" > was outside the USA.
Ooh, good one. That still applies, even -- if there's QPL'd software written by an Iranian, the requirement to distribute anything back to the original author on request totally screws you. It's even worse, because you might reasonably think "well, the original author will never hear about my specially linked version, so it's OK", so you distribute to friends, who distribute to friends-of-friends, it gets back to the original author and he compels you by the terms of 6.c to distribute in contravention of the laws of your country. The QPL is bad news in yet another way. Do we need a DFSG basis for "forces people to break the law"? - Matt
