Subject | Re: IBAccess for Linux |
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Author | toni@pala.com |
Post date | 2001-06-11T21:02:23Z |
>JEDI libraries or Delphree components or IBX components or in a GPLGNU says
>project because GNU insists IPL/MPL is incompatible.
>The Mozilla Public License (MPL).I understand from the last paragraph that it's legal to link
>This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft;
>unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that
>make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered
>by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be
>linked together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this reason.
>However, MPL 1.1 has a provision (section 13) that allows a
>program (or parts of it) to offer a choice of another license
>as well. If part of a program allows the GNU GPL as an
>alternate choice, or any other GPL-compatible license as an
>alternate choice, that part of the program has a
>GPL-compatible license.
GPL compatible software to MPL, but then, the MPL license of
the software linked is limited by the GPL, so you can't link
(GPL+MPL+Propietary), but you can link GPL(or compatible)+MPL(or
compatible).
I'm confused.
Toni Martir