On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Michael Giagnocavo
Goal 2 (The "open source" angle): Developers who use the library should have to contribute their modifications of the library back to the community. I believe that it's wrong to use a license to try to enforce such cooperation. Look what happened with KHTML when Apple started using it for their Safari web browser. Even though KHTML was
Well, the MPL helps out with this Goal 2 by requiring that you document all modifications (they recommend providing diffs). http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html#section-3.3
However, because of this clause (and others), the MPL is incompatible with the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#MPL http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/docs/mozgpl.html If it's not obvious why GPL compatibility is an important thing then the second link above provides some explanation.