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

Alexander Terekhov alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 10:26:24 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Inflammatory. Clean it up or take a hike.

What does the term "OSI-compatible file-level copyleft" mean to you?

I've got no idea what it means.

Can you help me?

regards,
alexander.



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