[fpc-pascal] MPL, LGPL rehashed again

[Jonas Maebe]

On 18 Jun 2008, at 10:33, Marco van de Voort wrote:

>>> I'm part of the core developers for tiOPF and am pretty sure that if
>>> we need to change tiOPF's license to a Modified LGPL or dual license
>>> it, it should be possible. Again, we link tiOPF directly into our
>>> executable. Does this pose any issues for us?
>>
>> MPL is not (modified) LGPL compatible either, so you need a dual
>> license.
>
> Hmm. Where did you get that? Do you btw understand the nature of the
> MPL<->(L)GPL incompability?

Here's an explanation: http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/docs/mozgpl.html

(Most of) the arguments there apply equally to the LGPL as they do to  
the GPL. Mozilla.org also explains this: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html#why-relicensing


Jonas