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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. IMPORTANT: we aren't done by Gerv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Note: we have only relicensed 6,000 files, using Netscape's ability to relicense files under the NPL. We have a bunch more of those to do (with different comment structure), and then we have to ask permission for the ones covered by the MPL.

    This is the very beginning of the process. The story erroneously implies it's finished. It's not.

    Gerv

    1. Re:IMPORTANT: we aren't done by bluephone · · Score: 3, Informative

      Yes, I meant to have the word BEGIN after the word bits. It should have read "Today the bits begin to go in..."

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    2. 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:Mozilla Project Success; Mozilla Browser Failur by baptiste · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Which browser renders pages faster?
    Answer: Mozilla

    Amen! I could not BELIEVE how fast 0.9.4 rendered pages. I've got the latest IE 6 and I thought the latency was network related - my friend - an MS freak, thought I was kidding when I told him Mozilla was rendering pages MUCH faster than IE 6 - he took control (Pent III 700MHz w/ 512MB RAM), browsed like crazy and had to admit it was true! Congrats to the Mozilla performance team!

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  3. 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.

  4. 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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