On 24/09/2001 at 08:06 Ben Bucksch wrote:
>Simon P. Lucy wrote:
>
>>One of the major ones is the allowing of merging at the source level on a
>file boundary of open and closed sources.
>>
>This can't be the reson for the incompatibility, because
>- That's not additional restriction, but an additional freedom. (My own
>opinion)
>- The BSD license also allows it, but is compatible. (FSF's opinion)
The incompatibilities aren't about more more or less freedom. From the point of view
of the licensee the MPL is freer than the GPL because it allows use with other
licences regardless of their licencing, but from the point of view of the GPL its less
free because it doesn't maintain the community rights over derivatives of any use of a
particular file.
The MPL is happy to live with the GPL, its the GPL that is unable to coexist with the
MPL by its very nature.
Simon
