Re: Open-source licensing (was: XLink library)

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:16:06 -0800

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At 03:02 PM 11/12/98 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>I suggest that you avoid the GPL for components, as GPLed components
>can only be used to build GPLed applications. Alternatives are:
...
> the MPL at http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html;
...

The Mozilla guys put an *immense* amount of work into this, and
got input from all the open source icons (Linus, Larry, Eric, etc).
James seems happy with it too. -Tim

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