Komodo in violation of Mozilla Public License?
Jeremy Hylton
jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Wed Apr 11 11:44:17 EDT 2001
>>>>> "PH" == phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
PH> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:12:35 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy Hylton
PH> <jeremy at digicool.com> wrote:
>> Huh? I'm not familiar the details of the Mozilla license,
PH> Then i suggest you read it.
I had read it a while ago, but didn't recall the details as I thought
I had.
>> but I thought it was an open source license
PH> Yes, it is OSI certified.
>> as opposed to a FSF "free software" license.
PH> This is a false opposition. The FSF's GPL and LGPL licenses are
PH> Open Source licenses, too.
Sure, we can split hairs. The GPL is an open source license, but not
all open source licenses are GPL compatible. I think it's fairly
clear to make a distinction between open source and free software.
>> If the Mozilla license is like the Python license,
PH> It isn't.
Indeed.
>> you can do anything you want with the Mozilla code, really
>> anything --
PH> Based on a wrong assumption. so wrong.
>From Mitchell Baker's post, it looks like you can do almost anything
you want with Mozilla code -- provided that you feed changes to
the Mozilla code back to the Mozilla project. So ActiveState is free
to release a propietary program based on Mozilla code.
Jeremy
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