StarOffice under the GPL ?

[kmself at ix.netcom.com]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 04:32:01PM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> > There *is* a Sun Public License modeled
> > after the NPL, pretty much s/Netscape/Sun/, which Netbeans was released
> > under (www.netbeans.org).
> 
> Sorry, my bad, the Sun Public License is a verbatim (except for
> substitution of the terms "Mozilla" and "Netscape" with the term "Sun" and
> addition of "documentation" to the list of covered items) copy of the
> Mozilla Public License, NOT the Netscape Public License.  The NPL is not
> an open source license, because it has language that carves out some
> redistribution rights for Netscape, which the MPL does not.

Thanks for 'fessing up.  That was my general understanding.

I'll have to give it a closer read, but I believe there's also a
definition of what it is to be an API in the Sun version of the license.
I'm talking through my hat as I'm not looking at SISSL at the moment.

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