On 23 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I doubt that the license will be compatible with the GPL. They will
> > almost certainly demand an unrestricted license on all changes, and
> > the talk of a "special site" makes me think that they will forbid
> > unauthorized distribution of derivatives.
>
> Craig Sanders writes:
> > ideas aren't copyrightable.
>
> > ideas on how (and how NOT) to do things can be re-used at will.
>
> And your point is?
the bleeding obvious:
mnemonic can derive some benefit from ideas expressed in netscape's
source code without having to cut-and-paste any of netscape's code
into mnemonic.
and vice-versa.
in any case, my suspicion is that netscape's license will be close
enough to GPL to make most people happy.
craig
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