Walter Landry wrote: > Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:21:31PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Whats debian-legals position about the MPL? >>> Looking at google I see a lot of "Summary - non-free" and "Not really >>> non-free" mails. >> It is indeed non-free. > > It is, in fact, not distributable as an executable by Debian. It > requires keeping the source around for every binary for at least six > months. > > It also has problems with choice of venue. If MPL is cast on stone as non-distributable, I guess I must take the necessary steps to get firebird2 out of the archive? firebird2 uses Interbase Public License 1.0 and Initial Developer Public License (1.0), both of which are MPL-based with "Mozilla Foundation" replaced with "Borland" and "Initial developer" respectively. Both IPL and IDPL have source of venue clauses and requirement to keep source available for some fixed period of time. I could try convincing upstream to change the license, but one of the authors is Borland, which, after releasing Interbase under IPL later closed it again so I guess chances that they re-license is rather small. No pain in trying, though. Joerg, please post here ftp-masters' ruling so I know what to do. Thanks, dam -- Damyan Ivanov Creditreform Bulgaria divanov@creditreform.bg http://www.creditreform.bg/ phone: +359(2)928-2611, 929-3993 fax: +359(2)920-0994 mob. +359(88)856-6067 dam@jabber.minus273.org/Gaim
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