Ian Hickson wrote: >Since the MPL is not the GPL, you cannot link them together. > Not that easy. You can link BSD code with GPL code, although the "BSD is not the GPL". It is jut claimed that the MPL had "additional restrictions", which the GPL specifically (and that "specifically" is important) disallows. However, I have not found, which spepcific MPL terms are those.
>If that is really the truth, then why are we not putting the Mozilla >source into the public domain? (Seriously.) > FYI: This is not possible in Germany. There is no such thing here. The author can never completely give away his copyright, only allow others to use the work under certain conditions (while "certain" can be very broad). (IIRC.) But the reason for not doing that or using the BSD license is that Netscape wants direct modifications (mostly bugfixes) back, probably to prevent forks like the one that founded MSIE.
