On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 13:26, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > I have a question about the Mozilla Public Licence and GPL. I need > to implement a function for the win32 bidi version for which much of > the code is in the Mozilla sources. I have had a look at the MPL, > but am not very clever of it. Can we include code from Mozilla in > our sources?
If that code is multi-licensed and one of the licenses is the GPL or LGPL, you can include that code, if you accept to receive that code under the GPL/LGPL. MPL alone, though a free software license, is not compatible with the GNU GPL. From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses The Mozilla Public License (MPL). This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this reason. However, MPL 1.1 has a provision (section 13) that allows a program (or parts of it) to offer a choice of another license as well. If part of a program allows the GNU GPL as an alternate choice, or any other GPL-compatible license as an alternate choice, that part of the program has a GPL-compatible license. Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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