Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

[Mitchell Baker]

There are two discussions here.  One regards the MPL itself, and its use by the mozilla project.  The other regards the proposed dual/tri licensing with the LGPL and or GPL.   The former is an interesting discussion which we should continue.  But it should not stop us from proceeding with the latter.  Let's separate these discussions.

The project uses the MPL license.  We have permission to allow a significant number of files to be used under the L/GPL as well.  Let's make this happen so that more people can use the code.  A good point has been raised, maybe we need a tri-license.  Either way, dual or tri, let's get this done.  

Mitchell

Ian Hickson wrote:

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On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Daniel Veditz wrote:

In its attempt to prevent combinations with licenses that might subvert the 
intentions of the GPL it also sometimes prevents combination with licenses 
compatible in spirit like the MPL as a side effect.

The MPL is *not* compatible in spirit with the GPL, because it allows the
use of proprietary code, which is exactly what the GPL is trying to stop.