>>Simon, you must be the only person in the world who has studied this who >>thinks that way. I can name a whole bundle of dually-licensed projects >>(OpenOffice, Perl) for which there is a dual license and a single source >>tree is considered absolutely fine. > > No, trust me, I'm not.
Can you name a single open source project which is dually licensed where they considered it a requirement to have two code trees? Simon, we are (as you can probably see) going round in circles. I can only say that I know of no-one else, and no other project, who has the same interpretation of dual-licensing as you do. Sun's lawyers (for Open Office) and Netscape/AOL's lawyers (for Mozilla) both think what we are doing is legally sound and perfectly reasonable, and will in no way cause them problems. I'm sorry if you feel differently, and can only ask (again) that you are kind enough to give your permission for relicensing code you own copyright to, as you considered you might. (As a side note, if you have been making products for your clients out of Mozilla code, they are already 'GPL-infected' under your terms, because NSPR, NSS and JavaScript are all GPL dual-licensed.) Gerv
