On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/01/13 13:11, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 1) Do we think there are circumstances under which it is best for > >> Mozilla to release software under a "no copyleft" (a.k.a. "permissive") > >> license? If so, what are they? > > > > The link between Mozilla's Mission and funding the DOM and XOM > > features of the Validator.nu HTML Parser that are needed neither by > > Validator.nu nor by Firefox was driving the adoption of the HTML5 > > parsing algorithm thereby driving the adoption of Open Web formats > > beyond Mozilla's usual browser context. The MIT license made sense, > > because when you want to drive adoption, it makes sense to choose an > > universal donor license that works for apps from super-proprietary to > > GPLv2 and GPLv3. > > I can see this as an argument against GPL-level copyleft; the FSF even > uses it when deciding whether to use the LGPL. But I'm not sure it > applies when considering the MPL. Let's imagine your "super-proprietary" > app wants to include an MPLed library. What do they have to do? Ship the > source to that library (only). Why can't they simply do that? There are > a few possible reasons: > a) technical changes to our code that they don't want to reveal > b) ideological opposition to publishing source code > c) They don't want the practical trouble of figuring out what they need to publish or the legal liability trouble in case they don't do it the right way or forget to update stuff later and then fall out of compliance. > >> 3) If we decide on Apache as our "no copyleft" license, what do we do, > >> if anything, about existing projects which are BSDed or MITed? > > > > Does this question apply to projects whose development Mozilla pays > > for but that aren't under Mozilla governance formally? > > Good question; I hadn't thought about it. Are you thinking about the > validator.nu HTML5 parser? :-) > I'm thinking about both the parser and the other code that's in the validator. -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/legal
