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From: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
To: peng.zang@gmail.com, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License question - QPL vs. SCM
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:54:09 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <733916.43443.qm@web54605.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804071510.19669.peng.zang@gmail.com>

Hi,

> My opinion is probably biased though.  I've always thought QPL was a silly 
> license.  The whole idea that you can release source + patches but not the 
> patched sources seems absurd to me.  There is no difference between the two. 

It's not silly if you intend to make clear what comes from upstream
and what has been modified.  Debian packages are organised like this:
unmodified upstream tarball + Debian patches.  In a different domain,
the American constitution works the same way: there's the original
text + patches (that go by the name "amendments").

Cheers,
Dario



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-07  4:29 Edgar Friendly
2008-04-07 19:10 ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2008-04-07 19:17   ` Adrien
2008-04-07 19:54   ` Dario Teixeira [this message]
2008-04-07 20:00     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-04-07 20:09       ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2008-04-07 20:14     ` [Caml-list] " Peng Zang
2008-04-09 15:21 ` Xavier Leroy
2008-04-09 16:24   ` Edgar Friendly

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