On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Michael Giagnocavo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Goal 2 (The "open source" angle): Developers who use the library >>should have to contribute their modifications of the library back to >>the community. I believe that it's wrong to use a license to try to >>enforce such cooperation. Look what happened with KHTML when Apple >>started using it for their Safari web browser. Even though KHTML was > > Well, the MPL helps out with this Goal 2 by requiring that you document all > modifications (they recommend providing diffs). > http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html#section-3.3 >
However, because of this clause (and others), the MPL is incompatible with the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#MPL http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/docs/mozgpl.html If it's not obvious why GPL compatibility is an important thing then the second link above provides some explanation. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
