Re: Mozilla Public License is non-free: stipulates court venue ?
Sean Kellogg said on Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:55:55PM -0700,:
> I don't believe the MPL was ever meant to be a free license,just an open one,
> hence the requests and eventual agreement to release it under the
We had discussed the *Nokia* Public licnese earlier, found that it
identical in certain respects to the MPL
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg01842.html ,
Concluded that the Nokia Public is not DFSG compliant, See
(among others)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg01826.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/08/msg01808.html
(and there are others too).
And decided that we can continue with Mozilla coz. it is dual
licensed under GPL/LGPL.
> Oh, wouldn't life be easy if everyone would just use the GPL or BSD license
> and all these variations would just disappear.
Freedom comes at a price!!!
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Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com
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