Convert GPL to MPL

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Thu Jan 24 02:10:58 UTC 2008


Marcel Ferrante writes:
 > If a open source uses GPL License and I do a fork and do many
 > modifications, I can change its license to MPL, to turn the software
 > a commercial open source ?

Yes.  However, you would have to make so many modifications that you
may as well have started from scratch.

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