Craig Southeren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:55:01 +0200 > Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Reading your previous posts about MPL, seems that the main problem MPL > > presents is that Debian does not keep source code for every change at > > least 6 months, as required in point 3.2. > > > > While this can be true for MPL packages being only in the archive it > > is not if the package is being maintained in svn.debian.org, as it will > > keep every change (released or not) for more than required 6 months, and > > nowhere in MPL it says that those changes has to be shipped together > > with binary, only made available. > > A problem would only occur if there was a Debian release that contained > source code that is is not in the SVN archive. Does this ever occur? > > In any case, this seems less onerous than GPL 3b) which requires > effectively the same for three years.
This is not the only issue with the MPL -- as Mike Hommey recently reminded -legal, there are others[1]. GPL section 3(b) is considered non-free in itself, but it is one of several options; a distributor may satisfy the GPL by making the work's source code available at the same time and in the same place as the object code. [1]- http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00221.html Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]