Re: [ox-en] Open Source and Denied Parties
- From: "Benj. Mako Hill" <mako debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:40:57 -0700
Sorry to be responding to this so late but I recently returned from a
trip and am catching up.
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:02:09PM [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], Chris Croome wrote:
Mozilla is under the GPL as well as the MPL -- if I were
doing a binary version of it I'd just take the GPL and
build a GPL version of Mozilla. I don't understand why
RedHat and debian etc don't take this approach (perhaps
they do?). But perhaps I'm missing something :-)
There are two answers here.
The first more simple answer is that if you've got a piece of software
under two licenses and you are able to distribute it under both
licenses, why not use both and pass the choice along?
The second answer is that it's more complicated that a simply dual
licensed piece of software. The following is the from Debian's
copyright file for the Mozilla source package and accompanying
binaries:
Some files in this source package are under the Netscape Public
License Others, under the Mozilla Public license, and just to
confuse you even more, some are dual licensed MPL/GPL.
On a Debian system, licenseing information is always contained in the
file: /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/copyright
Regards,
Mako
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Benj. Mako Hill
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