On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Jim Starkey wrote:
> I can't see any reason to muck around with licenses at all. MPL 2.0 claim to
> fame is that it's compatible with GPL, but at the moment approximately 100% of
> Firebird is already incompatible with GPL -- and very little of it can be
> changed -- what is the point?
Please be careful about the word "compatible" when talking about GPL.
Unfortunately it's one of the words (together with "free") that FSF
is abusing by completely twisting their usual meaning. In FSF-speak,
"GPL-compatible" means, roughly speaking, "code we can copy into a GPL
licensed project". I guess I don't have to explain such relation is far
from symmetric.
Michal Kubecek
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