Re: Switch GPL to MPL

Kurt Huwig <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:31:40 +0100
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Rainer Link wrote:
> Kurt,
> 
> can you eloborate a bit about the switch from GPL to MPL. AFAIK MPL is
> not compatible to GPL.

Yep, GPL is more restrictive. We always talked about having everyone 
transfer copyright to the project, as we might want to sell commercial 
licenses. This is exactly what the NPL (amendment to the MPL) says. 
Therefore I want to switch to something similar to NPL just to make 
things easier.


Kurt
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