On 28/05/12 11:18, Henri Sivonen wrote: > To avoid confusion, I think it's important to specify in the new > policy what versions of LGPL third-party code has to allow to be used > in order to be permissible in the Mozilla code base: for example, > whether an "or at your option any later version" choice is required > and whether it matters if the base version is 2.0, 2.1 or 3.
OK... If I proposed "any of the above", would that be a problem? > Personally, I have occasionally silently wondered why Mozilla upgraded > to MPL 2.0 instead of moving to LGPLv3 with "or at your option any > later version" choice. If/when Mozilla allows LGPLed third-party code > in the code base, it would probably good to have some kind of > documentation that explains why first-party code needs to be under MPL > 2.0 in addition to being available under LGPLv3 (which it has ever > since the tri-license). There are several reasons; one of them is that companies wish to combine our stuff with proprietary code (a usage model which Mozilla has always enabled). This is harder with the LGPL because of the wider scope of its copyleft. Gerv _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
