[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Jon, please understand that this isn't religion over license issues. > Unfortunately, licenses are a matter of law, not opinion. There are > people in this group who work for businesses that rely on the Apache > license. When I worked for IBM (a little over a year ago, so things may > have changed), IBM had a problem with some of the NPL or MPL (I can't > remember which). There are IBMers here who are very big contributors. > Moving to NSPR might mean that those contributors could no longer > contribute back. That is a bad thing IMHO.
That issue must have been resolved because the Mozilla client, NSPR, and NSS have all received contributions from IBMers, mostly OS/2 porting patches. For example, see the IBM copyright notice in this NSPR source file: http://lxr.mozilla.org/nspr/source/nsprpub/pr/src/md/os2/os2io.c. Wan-Teh
