Re: Liscencing Issue

Subject: Re: Liscencing Issue
From: Eric W. Sink (eric@sourcegear.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2000 - 08:46:23 CST

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Expat is licensing under a dual license. Users may choose to receive
expat under the MPL, or they may choose to receive it under the GPL.
There is no incompatibility.

In fact, it was the AbiWord team which convinced James Clark to adopt
the above approach.

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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:27:37AM -0600, sam th wrote:
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> I don't know if this has already been discussed on the list prior to my
> joining it, but it seems to be rather bad news.  The liscence covering
> expat, our XML parser, is the MPL, or Mozilla Public License.  The rest of
> the program is covered by the GNU GPL.  Sadly, we are legally prohibited
> from linking between these two licenses.  To quote the GNU web page:
> "a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot
> legally be linked together."  As it seems likely that Mr Clark won't
> change the terms of his parser, the only real recourse for us is to change
> our license. I hope ferverntly that we do not have to do this, but it
> seems that way. If I am totally off base with this, someone let me know so
> that I can pretend it never happend.  
> 				Sadly
> 
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> 			     	sam th		     
> 			     	sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
SourceGear Corporation
eric@sourcegear.com

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