Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

[Gervase Markham]

>>Doing this would make it illegal to release Netscape 6.something w/o
>>releasing the sourcecode.

Just a clarification: Netscape does release the source code to the 
open-source parts of Netscape 6.

 
> Nope.  Not if Mozilla was LGPLed.


If Mozilla were only LGPLed, then this would cause a great deal of 
inconvenience to many of our distributors, who do not wish to refactor 
Mozilla into libraries to avoid having to open source code they do not 
wish to open source.

The added hoops this would make them jump through would not be conducive 
to the good of the project.

Gerv