Markham: MPL2: GPL Compatibility? [LWN.net]

Gervase Markham is running an unofficial survey on whether or not the Mozilla Public License v2 should be compatible with the GPL. "I personally believe that most or all groups who are currently licensing their software under the MPL (only) would not mind, or actively desire, GPL compatibility, and the new MPL should give them the opportunity to choose it. I think most free software developers see licensing as a pain, and license incompatibility as a double pain, and would much rather everything were upwardly compatible with everything else. To test this belief, and so we can appropriately publicize the new version of the MPL when it comes out, I am creating a list of MPLed projects. If you know of an MPLed project please add it to the list. And I want to hear from those projects as to whether they are opposed to, in favour of, or indifferent to, GPL compatibility for existing projects being put into MPL 2. Have a discussion on your mailing list and let me know the outcome."

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