Pierre Chanial wrote:
>
> Please could you clarify the following point:
> Can Netscape stop the Open-source Project at any time and take their NPL files
> with them so that Mozilla could not use them anymore?
> Excerpt from the NPL:
> "V.3. Alternative Licensing.
> Netscape may license the Source Code of Netscape's Branded Code, including
> Modifications incorporated therein, without such Netscape Branded Code becoming
> subject to the terms of this License, and may license such Netscape Branded Code
> on different terms from those contained in this License."
>
Well I don't know about pulling the code completely, but that makes is
crystal clear that Netscape can at any time decide to change NPL to
MPL+GPL or whatever else they so choose and there's not anything anone
can do about it, including the "one-line copyright holders" Gerv wants
you to believe are holding up the non-existent transition plan.
> I know that Netscape has no interest in it, it's just a juridical point.
When the time comes, they'll have an interest in it. But it won't be
from NPL to MPL+GPL.
