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MPL nominal charge for source codeMPL nominal charge for source codePosted Jan 8, 2011 22:52 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: MPL nominal charge for source code by giraffedata Parent article: Mozilla releases a beta of the revised MPL
so you say that companies must pay for mailing costs, CD costs, etc and cannot charge _anything_ for this?
if you make a license with this restriction, you will find that many companies are not going to be willing to use that license
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MPL nominal charge for source code Posted Jan 9, 2011 0:26 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] so you say that companies must pay for mailing costs, CD costs, etc and cannot charge _anything_ for this? Well, let's word it more clearly: I say that if companies have to pay for mailing costs, CD costs, etc. when they supply source code and can't charge anything for this, companies will still license code to and from others with MPL. The main reason I believe that is that they can avoid those costs just by distributing the source code on the Internet or including it somehow with the object code. How often does an open source software distributor distribute source code by a separate CD today? However, I suspect that even if a mailed CD is the only way to distribute source code, a company of any size would still not balk at paying for it, because there would be a very small number of requests.
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