Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:52:45PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> > 2. Compilation works. Such works are based on many different >> > documents and as a result the volume of all invariant sections for >> > the resulting document can be too big. However DFSG accept as free >> > some licenses that prohibit any compilation works. >> >> You're talking about the patch clause? Many others have, IMO >> convincingly, explained why a patch clause does not prohibit to combine >> two or more works. > > I belived that any license using the patch clause would make the > combined works impossible and the others showed me that this is > possible with some licenses. On the other hand at least for QPL it is > quiet obvious that the combined works are impossible [*]. The > discussion has not finished yet, we have to determine exact conditions > in the license that make the combined works impossible. In order to > simplify the discussion I promised to post a message with my > conclusions and I haven't done this yet. [...] > [*] http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2006/02/msg00224.html
I see. But the QPL is a particularly bad example - AFAIK there's no consensus on -legal whether it is free at all. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
