MPL Beta 1 Section 10 is an additional permission, not a restriction

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Dec 8 03:55:15 UTC 2010


Inflammatory. Clean it up or take a hike.

Alexander Terekhov writes:
 > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla at mozilla.com> wrote:
 > [...]
 > > Our intent is that Beta 1 Section 10 (was Section 11) is an additional
 > > permission on top of the base, OSI-compatible file-level copyleft. It
 > 
 > Well, thus far, poor programmers got to deal with various copylefts
 > (and non-copylefts) such as:
 > 
 > "real copyleft" (GPL), "strong copyleft" (GPL), "not a strong
 > copyleft" (whatever). "non-copyleft" (a bad thing), and such pearls
 > as "simple, permissive non-copyleft free software license" or "a free
 > software license, partially copyleft but not really"
 > 
 > all demonstrating a real artistry in playing with the word "copyleft"
 > now expanded with yet another copyleft:
 > 
 > "OSI-compatible file-level copyleft"
 > 
 > What an exciting development.
 > 
 > regards,
 > alexander.



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