Re: Licensing of Mozilla website code

Jeff Balogh wrote:
...
>> Please don't confuse "copyleft" with "non-commercial" or
>> "non-corporate". No open source licence has any restriction on using the
>> code "in a corporate setting".
> 
> I haven't experienced it firsthand, but from what I hear on the
> internet, many corporate environments avoid copyleft because they fear
> the viral license.  The license itself doesn't preclude commercial
> usage, but the untested implications are enough to rule out copyleft
> code.

Use of GPL or LGPL is not such a big issue in corporations I am familiar 
with (IBM and HP). Redistribution is completely another matter. 
Developers, because they may someday work on product code, generally 
avoid messing with GPL source.  I am able to work on Firebug because it 
is BSD; I'm not sure I have enough patience to talk with lawyers about 
MPL; I'm sure I don't for GPL.

jjb