nanogui: Licensing summary
Subject:
RE: Licensing summary
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
5 Oct 1999 21:49:46 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910052227330.540-100000@hyperspace>
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> No - this is specifically what we _dont_ want to do. David's
> license allows us to create derivative works and do what we want with it,
> providing that we leave his copyright notice intact.
Ok.
> Does this mean that the tree would split at this point? I plan
Only if the person who converted his copy to GPL decided to maintain a
seperate, GPLed tree. The tree could also split for technical rather than
license issues. Basically we only really want the GPL clause so that
people who want to use parts of Nano-X in a GPLed project can convert
those parts to GPL, but there's nothing stopping somebody who really hated
the MPL for some reason from maintaining a seperate, GPL only tree of
their own. This isn't likely to happen if the main MPLed tree continues to
develop at a decent pace (the GPL tree maintainer would have to spend a
lot of his time back-porting changes from the MPL tree to his GPL tree
rather than working on new code).
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