On 23/09/2001 at 21:01 Gervase Markham wrote:
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>>> 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.
>
>When people contributed code into a file licensed under the NPL, they
>did exactly that. The terms of the license are not a secret.
No they aren't. At the time of the original release and all the discussion of the
terms of the licences there was considerable suspicion amongst some that Netscape at
some point in the future would just take the source back again. That hasn't quite
happened, instead the licence has been modified to enable the use of a licence which
poisons the use of the source. The GPL is not in the same spirit as the NPL/MPL I
think the text in the FAQ that asserts this should at least be amended to use the word
believe, if indeed its an honestly held belief.
Simon
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>Gerv
