Comments on: Updating the Mozilla Public License http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/ Open Source, The Web, And German-American Oddities Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:57:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/comment-page-1/#comment-253337 Fred Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:59:02 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/?p=2632#comment-253337 Toe: I passed on your comment, and if someone comes up with better wording, we'll change it :) "Yo Ma Ma": I don't know who you are referring to by "you people" but this is one of the biggest concerns business people have with copyleft Open Source licenses. I personally am an Open Source guy, I don't have this problem. Toe: I passed on your comment, and if someone comes up with better wording, we’ll change it :)

“Yo Ma Ma”: I don’t know who you are referring to by “you people” but this is one of the biggest concerns business people have with copyleft Open Source licenses. I personally am an Open Source guy, I don’t have this problem.

]]> By: Yo Ma Ma http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/comment-page-1/#comment-253329 Yo Ma Ma Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:24 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/?p=2632#comment-253329 “taint” ?? what is wrong with you people? “taint” ??

what is wrong with you people?

]]> By: Toe http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/comment-page-1/#comment-253289 Toe Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:53 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/?p=2632#comment-253289 Small comment about the site: 'Welcome to the process'? There's gotta be a better way to word that... Small comment about the site: ‘Welcome to the process’? There’s gotta be a better way to word that…

]]> By: Ian M http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/comment-page-1/#comment-253254 Ian M Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:53:07 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/?p=2632#comment-253254 As well as Apache license compatibility, I would dearly love to see LGPL/GPL compatibility. As well as Apache license compatibility, I would dearly love to see LGPL/GPL compatibility.

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/comment-page-1/#comment-253169 Fred Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:43 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/?p=2632#comment-253169 I agree, if you don't want copyleft, don't use it. I was more wondering if it'll be easier to explain to people if they can use MPL code in their (or even as the base of their) web application without having to open up their entire code base. (Which, as I understand, is the main concern of the people who are strong advocated of BSD, like commercial users of Django, for example). I agree, if you don’t want copyleft, don’t use it. I was more wondering if it’ll be easier to explain to people if they can use MPL code in their (or even as the base of their) web application without having to open up their entire code base. (Which, as I understand, is the main concern of the people who are strong advocated of BSD, like commercial users of Django, for example).

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://fredericiana.com/2010/03/10/updating-the-mozilla-public-license/comment-page-1/#comment-253166 Jesse Ruderman Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:33:28 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/?p=2632#comment-253166 It would be great to fix the license block issue. It's hideously long, and the one part that changes (the "initial author" and "contributors") is rarely kept accurate and up to date. But I'm not sure I see the point of "fixing" the copyleft. If you don't want copyleft, why not just use the MIT license or public domain instead? It would be great to fix the license block issue. It’s hideously long, and the one part that changes (the “initial author” and “contributors”) is rarely kept accurate and up to date.

But I’m not sure I see the point of “fixing” the copyleft. If you don’t want copyleft, why not just use the MIT license or public domain instead?

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