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I don't see why the FSF is up in arms about this. Mozilla is essentially doing the same thing that the FSF does with the GNU C library by releasing it under th
by jasonlotito 12y ago
I don't see why the FSF is up in arms about this. Mozilla is essentially doing the same thing that the FSF does with the GNU C library by releasing it under the LGPL.
They even spell out the case when they should adopt the lesser License[0], despite the fact that it goes against the FSF's core values and they advise not using it[1].
At the end of the day, I see this as Mozilla's LGPL.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
0. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries.
1. But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together.