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Commercial GPL?
Commercial GPL?
Posted Mar 25, 2008 5:41 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)In reply to: Tackling proliferation by man_ls
Parent article: Bruce Perens and the OSI board
Just what is a ``commercial GPL''? What is its intent?
I've read the MPL a time or two, but my eyes glazed over. I'd appreciate a brief ``compare and contrast'' of the MPL vs. the GPLv2.
Thanks.
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Commercial GPL?
Posted Mar 25, 2008 6:09 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]
As far as I can tell, LGPL3 achieves all of its goals. Allow software to be linked into proprietary works and still remain free on a file-by-file basis.Bruce