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Re: license question
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Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:57:34 GMT
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Whether this is "good" or not is a value judgement.  When I released
NQC, I felt uncomfortable with the GPL, and opted for MPL.  I assume
Markus had similar feelings when he released legOS.

IIRC, legOS is MPL because Kekoa released some of his code under MPL, and
so Markus released the rest under MPL in order to allow him to use that
particular section of code. I believe that he once mentioned that his
natural leanings would otherwise have been towards a public domain style
license.

Luis

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(...) I chose MPL because Dave did! :) It probably would have been GPL otherwise though. -Kekoa (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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The short answer is yes. The long answer... In general, free software licenses are self-compatible, meaning that you can take portions of software released under that license and create a different product using that same license. In fact, this is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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