Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, after a first contact with upstream, there seems to be some informal > agreement to modify the ocaml licence to the following text : > > > http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/ocaml/copyright?view=markup&rev=502
That's great news! > Changes are : > > a) Modified clause 3a to allow for adding authors to and translation of > copyright notices. That still isn't free. It must be permitted to remove any given notice, as long as a correct one is added elsewhere. > So this solves most of the issues, and we need to go through the QPL 3b again, > but upstream feels it is a reasonable clause, and would like to keep it. How about something like Best Practical's solution? A statement *outside the license* that anything submitted to upstream for inclusion in the public version is assumed to be coming from the copyright holder and licensed to upstream for arbitrary use. Heck, that statement + GPL would be about equivalent to that statement + QPL, from upstream's point of view... > One last trouble i have is that the QPL 1.0 state : > > Copyright (C) 1999 Troll Tech AS, Norway. > Everyone is permitted to copy and > distribute this license document. > > So, this would make it illegal to modify the QPL as i have done > here, right ? That's right. > Another way the upstream author has been suggesting was to keep the QPL 1.0 as > is, and saying that ocaml is under the QPL 1.0 licence, except that clause QPL > 6c and the Choice of venue part of the Choice of Law clause doesn'y apply. That kind of license editing by inclusion quickly gets confusing. It's not non-free, just painful for end users to understand. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
