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possibly taken from the mailing list, though I have no reference so this might be from a private email
Richard Stallman and others to the contrary, I do not consider QPL to be an open source license: You can’t grab a function from a QPL program and use it in another project, nor can you distribute modified forms of a QPL program, except as diffs to the original, which I consider to be insane. The whole point of QPL is clearly to maintain central proprietary control of the code while technically satisfying the definition of open source. (And what happens when the original maintainer dies? All further releases are done as diffs forever? Can you imagine Linux kernel 3.0.0 shipped only as diffs to Linux 0.99? Gaaaak — deal me out! Plus I couldn’t put improved code online as part of the HTMLized Mythryl codebase. QPL is bloody crazy, and a bloody sodding pain in the ass to work with, and clearly specifically intended to be so. It is the decisive reason I based Mythryl off the SML/NJ codebase instead of the QPL-encumbered Ocaml codebase, although there were also other good reasons to do so.)
ported from offline notes – the date is wrong