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]>,
 Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:

> (You cannot normally combine MPLed code and GPLed or LGPLed code.)

An LGPLed piece of software cannot, as far as I can tell, depend on 
MPLed code, but I see no reason why MPLed C or C++ code could not depend 
on LGPLed C or C++ code. In fact, Mozilla itself depends on GTK+ on X11 
platforms, which is why I find the attitude towards libart very strange.

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