[Haskell-cafe] Hmm, what license to use?

Michael Giagnocavo mgg at giagnocavo.net
Sun Sep 28 21:06:48 EDT 2008


>Goal 2 (The "open source" angle): Developers who use the library
>should have to contribute their modifications of the library back to
>the community. I believe that it's wrong to use a license to try to
>enforce such cooperation. Look what happened with KHTML when Apple
>started using it for their Safari web browser. Even though KHTML was

Well, the MPL helps out with this Goal 2 by requiring that you document all modifications (they recommend providing diffs). http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html#section-3.3

-Michael


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