On 21/09/2001 at 00:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> And will not now happen, there is no need, the tree will degrade quickly >> into a GPL project with AOL maintaining the fork they already have for >the >> production code. Its no more work than already has to happen. You >might >> say but you have to licence using MPL as well to get into the tree, and >> yes that's so, 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? > >If that does happen, then no company is ever going to release their >code under a GPL-compatable licsence ever again. Hopefully <s>messiah >complex boy</s> Richard Stallman will recognise that and encourage >people to submit their changes back to Mozilla.org for the sake of the >codebase, and for the sake of not causing still more anti-Open Source >FUD in the minds of everyone.
If they are happy to licence under the GPL then they will, companies already do that. But those developers that are wedded to only using the GPL and think that any other kind of open or free licence is deficient will not contribute back to mozilla.org, otherwise they'd be involved already. That's why I think the idea of getting the source to more eyes is a red herring. I don't think the number of eyes is the problem, more likely the number of fingers involved. Simon
