Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

[Ben Bucksch]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> When I said "the codebase", I meant as a whole. They can't do nasty 
> proprietary things with it as there are too man

"...y contributors involved", I assume.

They could do it nevertheless. If somebody dares to sue, AOL just 
defines a new version of the MPL, MPL 1.1a, which has a blacko-cheque 
term similar to the NPL V.3.

[Contributors disagreeing]

> This may be true. In which case, although I would urge them not to, 
> they have the right to refuse to relicense the code over which they 
> hold the copyright. We cannot force them to do so.

You seem to be doing just that with code covered by the NPL.


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