Mitchell Baker writes:
>I would be very interested in a proposal that didn't allow a GPL fork
>and yet was acceptable to the Free Software Foundation. I have yet to
>find one. All my discussions have coome back to the point that the GPL
>prohibits the application of any new restrictions. And requiring code
>to be licensed under the MPL as well as the GPL is an additional
>restriction which causes an incompatibility with the GPL.
I believe that is correct.
However, just to be clear, it would not infringe the GPL-only
copyright owners copyrights for someone to recover the
your-choice-of-GPL-or-MPL part by removing the GPL-only changes
and distributing the result again as "your-choice-of-GPL-or-MPL."
I am not a lawyer, so please do not use this as legal advice.
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