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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: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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  2. 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.

  3. 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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