Re: About "or later" in http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

Frank Hecker <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:16:37 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Ricardo Palomares Martí­nez wrote:
> The Spanish-Spain dictionary has been traditionally licensed under GPL
> only, so we never tried to bundle it into the binary localized packages.
> 
> However, I've just realized, while talking to Cédric apropos KompoZer
> dictionaries page, that currently, the Spanish dictionary is
> tri-licensed under GPLv3, LGPLv3 and MPL1.1.

I'm not a lawyer either, but I agree with timeless on this point: For 
compatibility with the Mozilla license scheme, the Spanish dictionary 
should use "GPLv2 and later" and "LGPLv2 or later", not GPLv3 and LGPLv3.

IIRC there are several Mozilla-based products that are licensed under 
GPLv2 (I think Miro, Songbird, and Flock all use GPLv2), and using only 
GPLv3 would cause a problem for them.

Frank


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