Taking a look at
*) the Komodo press release
http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press986865767.html
which heralds its Mozilla infrastructure,
*) the MPL
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html
which states quite clearly that the MPL must be mentioned in any license
agreements, and
*) the Komodo installation license agreement
http://activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/Komodo/LICENSE.html
(Note the doubly sneaky "usage license agreement" mentioned in #4
which ActiveState doesn't even have on their website.)
I can only conclude that ActiveState has either screwed up or is
thumbing its nose at the MPL. This is almost unbelievable, but they do
make Windows products, so I can't say I'm surprised. I don't even
know what the implications are for the dual-licensed GPL code. Even
if what they did isn't illegal somehow, it's certainly dastardly.
What makes this even worse is that mozilla.org is promoting Komodo on
the top of the site.
Note the stark difference with the Netscape 6 license
http://home.netscape.com/download/client_netscape6.html
which makes it clear that much of the code is freely available under
the MPL.
I hope Mozilla, in all its forms, will take action.
-- bradj.
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