Re: Switch GPL to MPL

Antony Stone <Antony-E2RgWYyNWflCkLs28/y7ANBc4/[email protected]> Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:59:07 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 14 December 2003 9:31 pm, Kurt Huwig wrote:

> 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.

Please can you give references to the text of these licences so we can see 
exactly what they provide for?

Antony


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