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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. Re:Why can't the GPL just go away by Gerv · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This relicensing is all about letting more members of the free software community use our code, while maintaining at least the standards of copyleft required by the MPL. It's not about any license being better or worse than another.

    Gerv

  2. Re:Mozilla Project Success; Mozilla Browser Failur by reynaert · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Have you tried Mozilla recently? Since 0.9 I haven't found a serious bug, and it gets faster every release. If you think it's still too slow, try Galeon, which is Mozilla with everything non-essential stripped away.

    Besides, Mozilla are the only free, complete, platform-independent browsers available (not counting thing based on Mozilla's components). Take a look at the list:

    • Opera: Not free
    • Konqueror: Tied to the KDE platform
    • Netscape 4.x: Not free, and buggy as hell
    • All the smaller browsers like Amaya lack support for one thing or the other: CSS, scripting, plugins, ...

    This alone is enought to ensure that Mozilla never dies.

  3. Re:IMPORTANT: we aren't done by SurfsUp · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Unfortunately, it is. Flamebait as it might be, very few people are actually *using* Netscape/Mozilla anymore.

    Err, sorry, you're living on another planet. Pretty well everybody running Linux is using either Netscape or Mozilla, increasingly Mozilla. Mozilla usage is obviously increasing rapidly.

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  4. Re:Copyleft Copyright collision by Dwonis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SAMPLE code should be in the public domain, IMHO. That clears up any and all licensing problems you could ever have.

  5. Re:*COUGH* by Erik+Hensema · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything copyrighted (and that's about everything anybody writes) can't be distributed unless the author gives permission to do so. This permission is called a license. In the license the author sets the conditions under which the work may be used, distributed, sold, etc.


    Only work donated to the public domain may be distributed without a license.

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