--- In unrev-II@y..., Jack Park <jackpark@t...> wrote:
> If I recall rightly, Mozilla recently dual-licensed their software.
This,
> it seems to me, allows programmers to decide if they want their
stuff to
> work with GPL (whoops! GNU GPL) and thus give up any proprietary
claims on
> their work, or, to not work with GNU GPL and retain the opportunity
to have
> closed source extensions to some other software (read: software
other than
> that licensed under GNU GPL).
>
> This whole area of licensing gets interesting. Surf the web for
software
> and you will routinely find whole projects that, when downloaded as a
> package, include chunks of software licensed under most all licenses,
> including GPL. But, the GPL license seems to forbid such combinations.
Actually, the Mozilla code base is now *triple-licensed*. You can
choose which of NPL 1.1, GPL 2.0 or LGPL 2.1 is appropriate for your
Mozilla-derived project. Removes all of the FSF's objections.
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