Simon P. Lucy wrote: >I fail to see how contributions will be made back to the tree by those that insist on >using the GPL. > Not at all.
>In which case why bother? > Because Mozilla can't be used by GPL projects otherwise. Note: *used*, i.e. compiled and distributed. Development should (!= must) happen under the triple license in all cases. >Licencing under the GPL isn't necessary to achieve this, both NSPR and XCOM can be >used as LGPL targets, and without relicencing under LGPL. > ? >And the licences give third parties the right to sue as well as the original >copyright holders, in fact they give third parties the right to sue the copyright >holders under certain circumstances. > Which ones? >but if all these marvellous things are happening in GPLand and they aren;t >contributed back (I promise you they won't be), then in 6 months time what is the >point? Oh yes here is the point, AOL will still get use of the codebase protected >by the buffer and the original copyright. > I don't understand what you are saying.
