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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