On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:14:58AM -0700, John McNally wrote:
> The main difference in MPL is that if you as a developer want your
> contributions added to the open source product, you are giving a company
> (I.e. Netscape) the authority to release those additions under any other
> license they choose. IBM has a similar license and Sun may also.
Actually that is the NPL you are describing (under which the original
communicator 5 source was released). The MPL doesn't have any clauses
like that - the main difference between the MPL and the GPL as I
understand it is that the MPL allows you to release close-sourced
derivative products.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/netscape-npl.html for some more info.
(And www.mozilla.org for the text of the MPL and NPL to decide for
yourself :-) )
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Sean Legassick
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