Re: planned updates to the Netscape and Mozilla Public Licenses (fwd)

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.org>]

Very nice!

I guess we'll have to wait and see if the changes are substantial enough to
negate our concerns.... 

	Brian

At 02:00 PM 1/27/99 -0800, Marc Slemko wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:49:05 -0800
>From: Jim Hamerly <ha...@netscape.com>
>To: mozilla-license@mozilla.org
>Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.license
>Subject: planned updates to the Netscape and Mozilla Public Licenses
>Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:49:15 -0800 (PST)
>Resent-From: mozilla-license@mozilla.org
>
>With the one year anniversary of Mozilla coming up, we are planning to
>update the Netscape and Mozilla Public Licenses to deal with three
>items:
>(1) correct some of the minor bugs in the original licenses
>(2) revise the patent license grant (mainly sections 2.1.b and 2.2.b) to
>
>encourage greater adoption of the Mozilla code base
>(3) add anti litigation provisions to discourage patent litigation and
>give developers greater defensive rights against patent plaintiffs
>Here is the approximate schedule:
>week of Feb 1    draft one posted with a comment period of two weeks
>week of Mar 1    draft two posted, 1 week of comment/review
>Weds Mar 31      license update published
>The original licenses were developed with substantial and significant
>participation and contributions by many of you, and we invite your
>participation in this evolution of the licenses.
>

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Re: planned updates to the Netscape and Mozilla Public Licenses (fwd)

[Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk>]

Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> 
> Very nice!
> 
> I guess we'll have to wait and see if the changes are substantial enough to
> negate our concerns....

Leave out the "wait" part, and I'm with you...

Cheers,

Ben.

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Re: planned updates to the Netscape and Mozilla Public Licenses (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Brian Behlendorf wrote:

> 
> Very nice!
> 
> I guess we'll have to wait and see if the changes are substantial enough to
> negate our concerns.... 

And if we still care.