Mozilla to update the MPL

Posted Mar 10, 2010 22:48 UTC (Wed) by bjacob (guest, #58566)
In reply to: Mozilla to update the MPL by mjthayer
Parent article: Mozilla to update the MPL

I like using plain unmodified mainsteam licenses. Makes it easy for my user to convince themselves that there's no licensing issue with my software --- "it's just the plain old LGPL".

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Mozilla to update the MPL

Posted Mar 11, 2010 8:28 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link] (1 responses)

That was the reasoning behind my suggestion - "LGPL, no additional restrictions, the same
exception as Glibc" is also likely to be reassuring for library users, as a high proportion will
likely be linking with Glibc too.

Mozilla to update the MPL

Posted Mar 11, 2010 16:45 UTC (Thu) by bjacob (guest, #58566) [Link]

Ah, that makes sense.

That also makes me wonder what happened in the brains of the FSF people when they wrote the LGPL in such a way that even _themselves_ (well, GNU) had to add an exception to it for their own C library!