Re: Switch GPL to MPL

Kurt Huwig <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:03:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.devel
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Antony Stone wrote:
> 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?

	http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

or

	http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mozilla1.1.php

Kurt
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