Re: MPL vs. Other Open Source Licenses

Sergey Yanovich <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:16:54 +0200

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On 2008-12-05 00:35, Greg Marine wrote:
> Either way, I do plan to drop the GPL.

Could I ask why?

If you don't provide GPL as an option, you effectively prevent your 
platform clients from linking with any GPLed code. IMHO, this won't add 
up to spreading the code.

Public domain (and BSD-style-license also, probably) code is an 
exception to the above, since it can be freely distributed to satisfy 
GPL. However, MPL doesn't seem to be GPL compatible.

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Sergey Yanovich