Mozilla Relicensing 312
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."
Re:Why can't the GPL just go away (Score:2, Insightful)
Gerv
Re:Mozilla Project Success; Mozilla Browser Failur (Score:2, Insightful)
Besides, Mozilla are the only free, complete, platform-independent browsers available (not counting thing based on Mozilla's components). Take a look at the list:
This alone is enought to ensure that Mozilla never dies.
Re:IMPORTANT: we aren't done (Score:3, Insightful)
Err, sorry, you're living on another planet. Pretty well everybody running Linux is using either Netscape or Mozilla, increasingly Mozilla. Mozilla usage is obviously increasing rapidly.
Re:Copyleft Copyright collision (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:*COUGH* (Score:3, Insightful)
Everything copyrighted (and that's about everything anybody writes) can't be distributed unless the author gives permission to do so. This permission is called a license. In the license the author sets the conditions under which the work may be used, distributed, sold, etc.
Only work donated to the public domain may be distributed without a license.