Mozilla Relicensing

bluephone writes: "Today, the bits go into the tree to relicense Mozilla under a triple license, MPL/GPL/LGPL. What this means, for those of you who aren't too up on this stuff, is that when YOU take the code, and make your own product, you now have a triple choice as to what license you want to distribute your code under. Read the FAQ here."

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[jesser]

when YOU take the code, and make your own product, you now have a triple choice as to what license you want to distribute your code under

It's better than that -- you now have 8 choices for licensing when you redistribute Mozilla, because you can distribute the code under any combination of licenses. (The empty set is a choice because both the BSD and the MPL allow distributing just binaries.)

Licenses are getting too confusing.

[Waffle Iron]

To solve the licensing issues once and for all, I propose the following Inconsistent Public License: (IPL)

You may only distribute this work under the following terms:

1. If you distribute this work, it must not be distributed in a manner that satisfies these terms.

End of license.