[Freegis-list] MapWindow

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am 17. Feb 2005 um 11:34:25 schrieb Ari Jolma:
> I mentioned a while ago about open sourcing MapWindow, now it seems they 
> have decided on the licence and selected the Mozilla Public Licence.
> 
> I'm not too well educated in the licencing matters but doesn't it 
> warrant MapWindow to get listed in freegis.org?

The MPL is a Free Software license, though from the
fourth category (unfair or GNU GPL compatible).
This is why I do not recommend it, but of course it is great
to have one more piece of Free Software!

A good check for licenses is to look them up at:
	http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

	Mozilla Public License (MPL)

        This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft;
	unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that make
	it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered by the
	GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be linked
	together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this reason.

    	However, MPL 1.1 has a provision (section 13) that allows a
	program (or parts of it) to offer a choice of another license as
	well. If part of a program allows the GNU GPL as an alternate
	choice, or any other GPL-compatible license as an alternate choice,
	that part of the program has a GPL-compatible license.


> http://www.mapwindow.com/licensing.html

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