Re: New license for UW-IMAP
Currently, there's THREE licenses here-- from August this year...
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/mozilla-relicense-faq.html
They're in the process of dual licensing Mozilla with MPL and GPL...
Since it is obvious that the NPL and GPL cannot coexist, they have
obviously worked out the inconsistencies--most probably by failing to find
enough original Netscape code to be able to assert rights under the
NPL...
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:41:54PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
> > So is mozilla in main or non-free?
>
> You should be able to figure that out.
>
> Anyways, currently there's two licenses here:
> http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
> http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0.html
>
> > If imap goes into non-free because of this one clause, it'd be logical
> > to reassess mozilla in light of it.
>
> Feel free to look into this yourself. Personally, I think you've confused
> mozilla and netscape.
>
> > BTW Raul, which clause of the DFSG is violated in this case?
>
> Beats me.
>
> I have a recollection of there being some interaction between some of the
> terms of the mozilla license and the required assignment of copyright
> to Netscape, that was a problem. I might be remembering wrong, or that
> might have been an earlier version of the license.
>
> I've not looked very closely at the current NPL, but I don't see any
> problem with it at the moment.
>
>
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