Re: [Flamerobin-devel] Flamerobin/IBPP relicense proposal

[Damyan I. <di...@cr...>]

Milan Babuskov wrote:
> Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
>> Right now anyone living in the US can file a case in the court of
>> Santa Clara,
>> California with whatever absurd claims about my (hypothetical)
>> contributions to
>> FR, and I'll have to spend a lot of money just to show up in court.
>> Otherwise I
>> am guilty. This is a possibility that I myself would like to avoid.
> 
> 
> Me too. Dual-licencing FR would still mean that MPL aplies, so that
> doesn't look like a viable option.

I understand multiple licensing more as "alternative" licensing. Something like

"Flamerobin can be distributed in either binary or source form, modifyed or
intact, providing that either license X's *or* license Y's provisions are met"

So one choses what license (s)he wants to comply with and goes on.

A more complete example can be found at
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/boilerplate-1.1/mpl-tri-license-txt

Also http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html contains much usefull
stuff on the topic.

> Well, if we rule out MPL and GPL and LGPL (Olivier doesn't like it),
> that doesn't leave us much :)

Hopefully GPL is not ruled out. If we're talking about alternative licensing,
as mozilla does, then maybe GPL is not so much of a hassle, since commercial
entities can still use the code under MPL.


dam
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