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Mozilla Relicensing

Posted by michael on from the too-many-cooks-spoil-the-license dept.

bluephone writes: "Today, the bits go into the tree to relicense Mozilla under a triple license, MPL/GPL/LGPL. What this means, for those of you who aren't too up on this stuff, is that when YOU take the code, and make your own product, you now have a triple choice as to what license you want to distribute your code under. Read the FAQ here."

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  1. number of choices by jesser · · Score: 2, Funny

    when YOU take the code, and make your own product, you now have a triple choice as to what license you want to distribute your code under

    It's better than that -- you now have 8 choices for licensing when you redistribute Mozilla, because you can distribute the code under any combination of licenses. (The empty set is a choice because both the BSD and the MPL allow distributing just binaries.)

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    The shareholder is always right.
  2. Licenses are getting too confusing. by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Funny
    To solve the licensing issues once and for all, I propose the following Inconsistent Public License: (IPL)

    You may only distribute this work under the following terms:

    1. If you distribute this work, it must not be distributed in a manner that satisfies these terms.
    End of license.