Re: MPL and Source Code
Craig Southeren <craigs@postincrement.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:42:49 +0300
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:29:37PM +1000, Craig Southeren wrote:
>> > On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:18:34 -0700
>> > Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>
>> > > I think you have successfully argued that we can satisfy this
>> > > requirement of the license, and thus we could probably legally
>> > > distribute MPLed software; however, distributability only gets you as
>> > > far as the non-free archive.
>> >
>> > Given that the Debian definition of free basically means "GPL compatible",
>> > I never really expected anything else :)
>>
>> GPL-compatible as in openssh and openssl?
>
> The modified BSD license is GPL compatible, isn't it? (I know the
> original BSD license isn't)
That doesn't matter. GPL-compatibility or copyleft ist *not* a
requirement of the DFSG, not at all.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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