On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:20:00AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > > > >> Which, incidentally, is an issue. If some user sends you a patch for > >> O'Caml, you can't apply it, because then you'll be distributing > >> software under the QPL, and trigger QPL 3b, which means you have to > >> grant the initial author permission to relicense... but you aren't the > >> copyright holder for the patch, and so can't grant that permission. > >> > >> This ends up being not merely theoretically non-free, but a serious > >> practical problem for Debian. > > > > This does not follow. The patch's original author "releases" the > > change by sending it to Sven (or whoever maintains the package in > > question), triggering 3b. > > Nope -- the patcher doesn't release his software under the QPL. He > doesn't transmit binaries to anyone at all. But Sven does. So the > patcher doesn't trigger 3b, but Sven does.
Obviously, i can incorporate the patch only if it is under the QPL, or a licence which allows me to QPL it, right ? Friendly, Sven Luther
