Yes, I mean ZFS. Brain fade. Thanks for catching that.
On 4/4/2014 12:17 AM, marius adrian popa wrote: > sun xfs is zfs right ? > > I will check how the GLP/apache and mpl2 linking works but i know why > they are using in libreoffice (practical reasons) > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Re-Basing#Why_go_with_the_MPLv2_.3F > > > > I quote from mpl2 history and its reasons and it is to me quite sane reasons > (this is the url where they worked on it > https://web.archive.org/web/20130127034402/https://mpl.mozilla.org/) > > What's New > > The result of a two year revision process that included feedback and > suggestions from the Mozilla community, users of the MPL (both > community and corporate), and the broader open source legal community, > MPL 2.0 contains several important changes from MPL 1.1. In > particular, MPL 2.0: > > is simpler and shorter, using the past 10 years of in-practice > application of the license to help better understand what is and isn't > necessary in an open source license. > is modernized for recent changes in copyright law, and incorporates > feedback from lawyers outside the United States on issues of > applicability in non-US jurisdictions. > provides patent protections for contributors more in line with those > of other open source licenses, and allows an entire community of > contributors to protect any contributor if they are sued. > provides compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, making code > reuse and redistribution easier. > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Jim Starkey <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4/3/2014 5:16 AM, marius adrian popa wrote: >>> I repost it here from Firebird-general >>> >>> Just noticed Mozilla license v1.1 >>> http://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-1.1 was upgraded to v 2.0 maybe is >>> time for firebird project to do so for all new code (This license has >>> been superseded by the Mozilla Public License 2.0; please use the MPL >>> 2.0 instead of 1.1.) >>> >>> http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/differences.html >>> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/mpl-2.0-release >>> >>> The mpl 2.0 just needs a few changes as desribed in this paper >>> (related to mpl1.1 vs idpl 1.0 changes) >>> >>> http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/papers_presentations/html/paper-fbent-manage.html#fb-management >>> http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/initial-developer-s-public-license-version-1-0/ >>> >>> It should be easy doable for new code >>> >>> >> I've taken a quick first pass over the new Mozilla license and, frankly, >> I don't understand it or how it is supposed to work with GPL. >> >> My understanding of the original problem is that both the original MPL >> and GPL require that changes must be made available under the original >> license. The problem is that GPL insists that anything that has been >> under GPL must continue to be under GPL, and that anything that contains >> any GPL code is subject to GPL in its entirety. This is what prevented >> Linux from adopting Sun's XFS -- The Sun license requires that changes >> to XFS be made available to users under the Sun license, but any changes >> to XFS made for Linux would be automatically GPLed, making it impossible >> to conform to the Sun license terms. So last I heard, XFS was just >> rotting away. >> >> The problem is with GPL, not the "secondary" licenses. I don't >> understand how the MPL can get around a problem intrinsic to GPL. >> >> Somebody probably understands this, but until the nuances of the new MPL >> and its relationship to the GPL, I think caution is in order. There's no >> rush. >> >> And from the very unpleasant brawl with Mozilla over the Firebird name, >> I'm less inclined to trust them than I once was. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
