On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:34:03AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > The QPL does not require patches. It prefers them, but doesn't require > > them. You could just as easily provide the original for reference and > > let someone else diff it (which is at least a major improvement over > > requiring that only patches be made..) > > Ok, thanks, I wasn't up on that. > > But basically what this means, you're obligated to distribute all prior > versions -- perhaps as a CVS archive, perhaps as something less efficient. > [If you're the author you can collapse versions, but not if you're > building on someone else's work.] > > Not that I particularly care.. Just their latest release. It's at least an improvmenet over patches, but I could have done better if their lawyer hadn't decided that was necessary or anything like that. And as everyone has pointed out several times it'd be a lot simpler for everyone if they used the GPL or something simple like that. I'm not convinced the GPL is ideal, it just seems more ideal than other things and it's the fastest way to fix a few of the IMO bugs in the QPL. I take full responsibility for at least one of those bugs, but I've gone into detail what the problem was and what the Trolls oughtta do to fix it in other messages. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - knghtbrd@debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Simunye is on a oc3->oc12 <daem0n> simmy: bite me. :) <Simunye> daemon: okay :)
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