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List:       mozilla-general
Subject:    Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-08-31)
From:       Gervase Markham <gerv () mozilla ! org>
Date:       2001-08-31 18:50:00
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JTK wrote:

> Mike Lee wrote:
> 
>>I don't see the signifcant of GPL everything. Only advantage is people
>>can link mozilla to GPL program,
>>
> 
> From what folks are telling me here, that's not the case.  I've been
> told on numerous occaisons that GPLed work cannot be added to Mozilla,
> so I don't see how the reverse could possibly work.  So the bottom line
> is that this dual-licensing is at best a wast of time, at worst a
> thinly-veiled ploy to con coders into thinking they're not working for
> AOL unpaid.

Quite the reverse. Dual licensing will permit loads of other people to 
use Mozilla's work. It will have no direct benefit to Mozilla in terms 
of being able to incorporate more code. Hopefully, it will have indirect 
benefits because more people will work with the code.


> Whatever, I still maintain that LGPLing the whole works solves
> everybody's stated problems.  


This would remove the rights of some companies to use Mozilla code in 
ways they have been using it. This includes Netscape, and would probably 
make them fork Mozilla. This would be bad.

Gerv

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