Michael Hein wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of moving the LDAP C SDK 5.0 source code from NPL to
> the dual MPL/GPL license. In notifying past contributors of the intention
> of moving to the dual license I realized quickly this is more of a
> religious issue that I had first anticipated. Can someone sum up the
> pros/cons of the MPL/GPL dual license. Why is it good/bad etc. Is there
> something better? Why the MPL/GPL?
MPL because that's the preferred Mozilla license, specifically drafted by
Netscape/mozilla.org to accomplish the aims of the Mozilla project that
didn't seem covered by existing open source licenses in quite the way we
wanted.
GPL because that's the license used by a large portion of open source
projects (e.g. Linux itself, GNOME, GIMP, and many, many small projects).
dual because currently GPL and MPL code cannot be combined in the same
project due to niggly technical details.
Important because the MPL/GPL incompatibility is blocking the use of
Mozilla/Gecko by GPL'd projects. A bummer for projects that would like to
use Gecko rather than invent their own, a bummer for us because we aren't
getting bug reports and fixes from those projects and aren't getting the
additional Gecko browsershare of those users.
religious issue because everything about the GPL is a religious issue.
-Dan Veditz
