--On Saturday, November 21, 2015 12:50 PM +0100 Kurt Roeckx
<[email protected]> wrote:
I would like to point out that GPLv2 also isn't compatible with
GPLv3, and that that is causing just as much problems as the
current OpenSSL license.
Both the GPLv3 and Apache 2.0 have protection for patents, which is
why it's not compatible with the GPLv2. If you look at the above
page, they recommand the Apache 2.0 license instead of the MIT
license just because of that.
We are in a field were people do claim patents. So the question
is if this patent protection is important for us or not.
So the MPLv2 is compatible with the APLv2. The MPLv2 is compatible with
the GPLv2 and the APLv2 is copmatible with GPLv3. The MPLv2 has patent
language along the same lines as the APLv2. I haven't looked into it and I
am not a lawyer, but would it be possible to dual license via the MPLv2 and
the APLv2? If so, that would keep the patent protections and allow both
GPLv2 and GPLv3 compatibility.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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