Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:18:14 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Christoph Toshok <toshok@Hungry.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free netscape - good or bad ? Message-ID: <199801242348.KAA00327@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:07:32 BST." <19980124180732.15519@follo.net>
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(Christoph, should I keep you cc'd, or are you on -hackers?) > > I'm not sure I parse you here; you are suggesting that libnetscape.so > > should be subject to LGPL-style conditions? > > No, quite the opposite. I suggest that Netscape shouldn't be required > to distribute under GPL or LGPL, even when they include changes they > get from the rest of the world. Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that one. On the one hand, it would leave Netscape free to cull the best of the changes made. On the other, would it imply that if I were to drop some of my hot new technology into the Navigator and start offering it, I would also have to give it, gratis, to Netscape? I guess the answer depends on whether Netscape want to see lots of Navigator-based offshoots hitting the market. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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