Re: Is Sun's new license compatible with the MPL?

Henri Sivonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>,
 Vidar Braut Haarr <[email protected]> wrote:

> MPL: Allows people to take the work (and modify it if they want to) and 
> sell it without providing the source code.

Nope, you have to publish the modifications you make to MPL'ed source 
files and to files that contain code copied from MPL'ed source files.

> LGPL: Proprietary software can link against the software without 
> opensourcing their application.

LGPL is difficult to interpret--especially when applied to languages 
that don't use C linkage. When people think about using LGPL, it would 
usually be better to use MPL/GPL dual license.

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Henri Sivonen
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