Re: MPL vs. Other Open Source Licenses

Greg Marine <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:32:03 -0800 (PST)

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On Dec 5, 4:16 am, Sergey Yanovich <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Either way, I do plan to drop the GPL.
>
> Could I ask why?

Yes. I just don't completely agree with the direction GNU is taking
with the GPL.

> 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.

I agree. So...

> Public domain (and BSD-style-license also, probably) code is an
> exception to the above, since it can be freely distributed to satisfy
> GPL.

I think I'll stick with BSD-style.

I'm personally glad I asked this question. I appreciate the input
given.

Regards,
Greg