Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Friday 11 January 2008 14:18 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Mozilla Public License to be Updated?
>>
>> Let's hope they veer more towards the GPL and less towards the CDDL
>> (based on the MPL and designed to be "deliberately GPL incompatible"[1],
>> according to its author, Danese Cooper - previously of Sun, now Intel).
>>
>> [1]
>>
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-unscaled/2006-05-14/tower/OpenSolaris_Java_and_Debian-Simon_Phipps__Alvaro_Lopez_Ortega.ogg
>
> The new CEO has proprietary baggage, but the userbase will have him pressured.
> Besides, he's NAL (not a lawyer), so he probably isn't involved in this at
> all.
>
If the licence changes in an unsuitable direction, I'm quite sure that,
just like with the X.org project, a fork will happen, and the winner
will be the GPLed version.
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