Re: Was MPL under consideration of good licenses for PEAR?

On 4/24/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote:

Arnaud Limbourg wrote: Axel Hecht wrote:

Hi all, we Mozillians want to start out on a project with a php implementation, and would like to pick a license that is both good for PEAR/PECL and

for

us. I have found http://pear.php.net/manual/en/faq.devs.php#faq.licenses, which mentions BSD and MIT, which we could go for, though Mitchell

Baker

mourned the lack of patent protection therein, compared to the MPL. Thus, before we do stuff that nobody wants to revert, was the MPL discussed yet? If, or if not, what was the outcome, or if not, would

you

consider looking into it? Having glanced through the recent posting, I guess that a new decision on the MPL would likely have to wait for the elections, am I right

there? Hello, The best course of action seems to be to wait for the election to end and the pear-group to be in place. This should happen relatively quickly. I would suggest you write to the group once in place. Since I was part of the original decision, I can comment on what was considered. Mozilla on the list prior to the PEAR Group decision to drastically reduce the list. Basically we wanted todo two things with the change: 1) ensure that all licenses allow commercial use 2) reduce the number of licenses PEAR users need to understand Considering that since then I do not remember anyone else asking for MPL, I guess we made a pretty good choice. However getting the Mozilla project to contribute is obviously quite attractive, though you did mention you could live with the BSD/MIT licenses.

Well the new group could consider MPL I suppose but I tried reading the license and looking at the FAQ, it felt like reading the GPL license, head spinning kind of style :-) A friend of mine said tho that MPL is more like the old BSD license rather then the new one (i.e. more like the four clause BSD license), i.e. you can't throw out the credit part and claim it as your own (not that anyone should but still), BSD-new threw out the so called author clause Could I be misunderstanding ay parts of this or ? (= Please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. Regards Helgi Þormar