On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:33:51AM -0400, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2014-04-15, 10:25 AM, Mike Hoye wrote: > >On 2014-04-15, 12:47 AM, Andreas Gal wrote: > >>Vlad asked a specific question in the first email. Are we comfortable > >>using another open (albeit not open enough for MPL) license on trunk > >>while we rewrite the library? Can we compromise on trunk in order to > >>innovate faster and only ship to GA once the code is MPL friendly via > >>re-licensing or re-writing? What is our view on this narrow question? > > > > > >While I support the pragmatic approach here - if we're rewriting the > >[library - mh] while building things on top of it, what is the fallback > >position if the library rewrite > > ... goes sideways for technical or legal reasons? "A plan B we can live > with" seems like a deciding factor here.
Is the risk of a rewrite not working greater than epsilon? I don't know where legal thinks the line is (IANAL of course), but afaik clean rooming something especially given the source code isn't hard just time consuming. Trev > > > Also, the window-close button being right next to the send button in > Thunderbird turns into a real problem after your third coffee, let me tell > you. > > - mhoye > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
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