Re: [ox-en] Germ of a new form of society or germ of a new form of business?
- From: Robin Green <greenrd greenrd.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:47:16 +0000
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:47:41AM [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED], cc wrote:
It is interesting to note that big commercial software
projects such as StarOffice and Mozilla, which were
originally written as non-free software, were put under
the GPL by large capitalist organisations, rather than a
BSD/Apache style license.
Some corrections/clarifications:
Mozilla has been put under the GPL, but it is triple-licensed
(GPL/MPL/NPL), which is considerably weaker than the GPL alone.
As a consequence, Mozilla has always been open for incoporation
into proprietary software.
StarOffice is still a proprietary fork of OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is also dual-licensed (GPL/SISSL). The key feature
of the SISSL is that it exchanges the right to write proprietary
derivatives for the obligation to either keep to standards, or
failing that, publish all deviations from such standards.
--
Robin
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