Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, it does -- it prevents me from incorporating any patch to which I > don't own the copyright. There is no license I can have from anybody > which permits me to grant a license like this to the "initial > developer" -- granting new licenses is something only the copyright > holder can do.
Not true: it's quite normal to give permission for sublicensing. Some kind of "do whatever you like with this patch" licence would be sufficient in this case. You could argue that someone who submits a patch to a Debian maintainer of a QPL-licensed work is implicitly allowing the maintainer to sublicense the patch in the manner required by the QPL just as someone who submits a patch to a GPL work is often assumed to be licensing their patch under the GPL.
