On 23/09/2001 at 22:11 Ben Bucksch wrote:
>We have heard from several sources that FSF states that the GPL is
>incompatible with the MPL, because the MPL has some "additional
>conditions" which the GPL does not allow:
>
>| it has some complex restrictions
>| that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL.
><http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses>
>
>But I don't remember hearing, which exact terms in the MPL are the
>problem. Which are those?
One of the major ones is the allowing of merging at the source level on a file
boundary of open and closed sources. Its also the major attraction to proprietary
developers not so much because they want to keep their own source closed but that
there are other licence restrictions they have which mean they can't be open.
Simon
