Bernhard_Kuster wrote:
> I have a question: Is there a connection between the special rights for
> Netscape in NPL and the late release of Mozilla version 1.0? 

No. Netscape has never exercised its special rights with regard to the 
NPL (apart from to relicense everything under the NPL under an 
NPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license) and never could, now - there's too much MPL 
code in Mozilla.

> If another and
> more free license, 

Define "more free".

> like for example GNU GPL, had been used, would  more
> people have contributed to Mozilla 

Impossible to tell.

> and would Mozilla 1.0 had been released
> earlier?

Probably not :-)

Gerv



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