Re: Commercial use of Netbeans classes

The SPL is the MPL, with Sun as the entity able to make changes.  
Anything we would say about the MPL would be useful for teh SPL.  Sun's 
has a new license which is similar but different, but that's not the SPL.

 Mitchell

Gervase Markham wrote:

>> The SPL web site says specifically that this is the place to get 
>> these queries answered.  On 
>> http://www.netbeans.org/about/legal/license.html, you will find the 
>> paragraph:
>>
>> "If you have any questions about the license, what it allows and 
>> prohibits, we suggest you head over to the Mozilla License forum - 
>> the SPL and Mozilla really are close enough to identical that any 
>> queries you have are best addressed there: 
>> news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.license"
>
>
> Whoever wrote that is wrong, in that no-one in this group has offered 
> to support or give advice on the SPL. I haven't even read it very 
> closely, and I normally answer most of the questions. It uses most of 
> the same text, but I would have no idea if the differences were 
> relevant to your question or not.
>
> As I understand it, Sun went off and made the SPL without consulting 
> mozilla.org. Given that, asking us to support their licence is a bit 
> rich.
>
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