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Re: Corel's apt frontend



On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 10:45:27PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> > Should this interpretation of the GPL become dominant I believe we should
> > deprecate the GPL in favor of a license which does not skirt the letter of
> > the DFSG while violating its spirit in favor of some license which
> > doesn't.  (Which would suck because I don't know of any other suitable
> > licenses that do anything like what the GPL does..)
> 
> Thoughts on the MPL?  I find it a more than adequate compromise between
> the GPL's viral nature and BSD's optimal-reuse strategy.

The MPL is not exactly light reading, to put it mildly.

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