Did the thread started in .general? Can you give a short summary?

Gervase Markham wrote:

> I think Hixie's saying that if you want to combine with GPL code, you 
> have to change all the notices, as section 3 requires, before you can 
> do so. This is inconvenient (and may make returning changes to the 
> original codebase more complex.)

That's a problem, but not that bad that it were the reason to 
dual-license under GPL instead of LGPL.

There are quite a number of LGPL problems, and Mozilla code 
dual-licensed under the GPL could not be used in those projects, 
assuming they want to keep the ability to be used under LGPL terms.

Note that this problem is (again!) a problem inherent with the LGPL and 
not limited to thedual license. If you want to use LGPL-"native" code in 
GPL projects, you have the same problem. It is unclear, how it works, if 
I don't directly incorporate/import the code into the GPL project, but 
just use it (e.g. linking, extracting mozilla tarballs etc.).



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