Re: Please..
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:24:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Please.. | ||
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At 13:19 16-08-01, Sascha Schumann wrote:
Having now re-read the Q license a few times, the PHP license a few
times, this seems unrelated to licensing, and more related to
You might want to reread the QPL then. The important point
is clause 3 which prohibits distributing changes, unless they
are provided as patches. This is highly unpractical, because
it even does not permit you to run a CVS server where
something simple as browsing the CVS using Chora or doing a
checkout would already constitute distributing the changes.
So, any source-code which is under the QPL will hardly
become a source for further external development, because the
changes are unmaintainable.
From the annotated license:
"Any technique is acceptable for keeping changes separate - generally, you would have to mark changes very clearly for them to be separate. We don't want to hard-code the idea that the form must be patches. "
http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/annotated.html
(this is not an encouragement to make you fork, just pointing out that you're wrong).
Zeev