Re: Problem with MPL

On 2007-11-08, none <""> wrote:

"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) considers the license a free
software license, but "not a strong copyleft" one. However, "unlike the
X11 license" the license has "some complex restrictions" making it
incompatible with the GNU GPL. We urge people not to use the license
because of this incompatibility unless the provision in section 13 of
the MPL is exercised to provide the work under either the GPL or any
other GPL-compatible license"

It is exactly the same statement that is my problem too. But only in a
fairly remote region of licensing (creating Lazarus distributions with
components preinstalled).

It is easy to work around this using some "please click here" script that
does the final linking, but I prefered to have had a simple dual license
statement from Peter. Pity that he doesn't or doesn't want to understand the
issue.
.

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