Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

[Simon P. Lucy]

On 14/09/2001 at 00:56 Ben Bucksch wrote:

>Simon P. Lucy wrote:
>
>>the GPL effectively removes the original
>>copyright (insofar as original copyright holders have rights to any
>>derivable product) and gives it away to all and sundry.
>>
>>The MPL, and a few other licences avoids this imposition.
>>
>Does the MPL give the original copyright holder rights to derived 
>products? In which way?

Yes because the MPL allows the derivatives to be combined with closed source, the 
originator is never locked out of their own code, no matter what use they wish to put 
it to.  Other than messing with the copyright of subsequent contributors of course.

Simon