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  • From: Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran AT fsfe.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] open source non commercial license
  • Date: 06 Feb 2007 20:40:54 +0000


drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com> writes:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 02:30 pm, Emerson Clarke wrote:
> > are open source licenses at such a point where developers face a "use
> > license X, or sink" situation,

David A. Wheeler wrote an interesting essay where he argued "use X or sink"
isn't true if X is any one particular licence, but it is true if X means "a
licence compatible with the GNU GPL":
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html


> There is resistance to license proliferation, but Mozilla made a new one.

...and then later went to a lot of relicensing effort to make their code
distributable under the GPL.

(They changed from MPL to a tri-licence of GPL+MPL+LGPL - so recipients of
the software have the option of which terms they follow when
redistributing.)


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