Relicensing going on

2001-09-20 Thread Ben Bucksch
It seems like the relicensing is already going on. Did I miss any announcements or hasn't this been announced on .license? I find it somewhat irritating that you now change (NPL code) to the dual license, although my understanding was that you wanted to ask each and every contributor for

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 20/09/2001 at 14:55 Gervase Markham wrote: You have the wrong end of the stick. It's not that way round, it's the other way round - developers who want to combine our code with GPLed apps. We still aren't letting GPLed code into the tree. For one example of a group who want to use our code

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 20/09/2001 at 15:00 Gervase Markham wrote: This is not the case. Let's do a thought experiment: You have a file of code. You make three copies and put one of the license header from the MPL, LGPL and GPL on each one. Whenever you make changes to the file, you update all three copies. If

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread jesus X
Simon P. Lucy wrote: However this is not the case, there are not three files but one. Think of it like Breathsavers mints; every Mozilla file is 3 files in one. When you license your code out you can pick which of the 3 you want to use, or you can relicense it as all 3. And, being the copyright

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread Gervase Markham
license header from the MPL, LGPL and GPL on each one. Whenever you make changes to the file, you update all three copies. If someone wants to use the file, he picks which copy to use. If you are, for example, Netscape, However this is not the case, there are not three files but one.

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 20/09/2001 at 21:45 jesus X wrote: Simon P. Lucy wrote: However this is not the case, there are not three files but one. Think of it like Breathsavers mints; every Mozilla file is 3 files in one. No it isn't, there is only one file. Legally its a single entity. This idea of it being

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread Simon P. Lucy
On 20/09/2001 at 19:04 Gervase Markham wrote: license header from the MPL, LGPL and GPL on each one. Whenever you make changes to the file, you update all three copies. If someone wants to use the file, he picks which copy to use. If you are, for example, Netscape, However this is not

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread Gervase Markham
This is not the case. Let's do a thought experiment: You have a file of code. You make three copies and put one of the license header from the MPL, LGPL and GPL on each one. Whenever you make changes to the file, you update all three copies. If someone wants to use the file, he picks which

Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

2001-09-20 Thread timeless
Daniel Veditz wrote: Note that there are at least two folks--Simon Lucy and myself--who object to specifics in the current proposal for dual licensing (though not the concept itself) on the same grounds that GPL zealots dislike non-GPL licenses. It would allow people to turn the code