2009/11/24 Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>: > Hi Tony, > > Tony White <[email protected]> writes: > >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html >> So Mozilla Firefox is classified as non-free because of the mpl. > > The referred page reads: > > Mozilla Public License (MPL) > This is a free software license [...] > > Thanks, > Ludo’. >
Hi all, The point I way trying to make was that free in nixpkgs means gnu free because Ludo says it's this : http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Ludo : "This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this reason." That means that it is a free software license but in nixpkgs it should be classified as non-free because a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot legally be linked together. I did not write that the mpl is not a free software license. It does however, restrict freedom because of a legal technicality and should be labelled as non-free in nixpkgs. Thanks, Tony _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
