On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:30:21PM +0000, Alan Woodland wrote: > I filed an ITP recently for stumbleupon, and have been talking with the > upstream author about a suitable license for the mozilla toolbar. Im > not an expert on legal or license related issues, so I'm posting here > for some advice/suggestions. Basicaly this is what the upstream author said: > > Geoff Smith wrote: > > >funnily enough, I haven't chosen a license yet. I guess now would be a > >good time ;-) > > > >Is there still an issue with MPL? I wouldn't mind using it, but I seem to > >remember some issues with DFSG and MPL a while back. Have those been > >resolved? > > > >Do you have any opinions on what a good license would be? My only > >concerns with the license is that being able to add proprietary extensions > >to stumbleupon would be nice (for people, possibly including me, who in > >the future want to add something to StumbleUpon that is closed-source) I > >seem to remember this is a benefit of MPL. On the other hand, I would > >also like to stop people from using the directly in proprietary software > >(which I remember being a disadvantage of BSD, and maybe MPL???) Sounds like a classic application of the GNU GPL to me. Am I missing something obvious? -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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