Can Free Pascal be MPL??

This will help the adption by companies of free pascal. I would like to port my software over but i need to write something like a reflection API ala java in pascal but I want the option to keep it under wraps or releasing it.

Joe Mele
www.youseful.com

Can Free Pascal be MPL??

No. We would have to get the signature of all people that ever contributed (even if we wanted to ourselves).

This will help the adption by companies of free pascal. I would like to port my software over but i need to write something like a reflection API ala java in pascal but I want the option to keep it under wraps or releasing it.

Why is LGPL not good enough? You can still sign out commercial licenses. That is even possible with GPL (see Trolltech)

Personally I think MPL is bad. It is only useful for some specific reasons (like Netscape which had the possiblity that LGPL would interfere with past archaic contracts).

For any new development it should be avoided, since the bulk of opensource is LGPL, and it only causes fragmentation without adding much as far as I can see. So MPL makes it only harder for everyone, including companies.

MPL is compatible with LGPL btw if you use it's dual-license feature (which is an ugly construct). For more information, ask somebody with a less superficial MPL knowledge (Try JEDI: www.delphi-jedi.org)

Marco van de Voort ( or )

In a message dated 9/10/00 6:33:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, writes:

<< Why is LGPL not good enough? You can still sign out commercial licenses. That is even possible with GPL (see Trolltech) >> Well, if statically link to LGPL then It must be opnesource. And Stallman now says everything whether staicly or dynamically or whatever means that anything using it must be a derived work.

joe mele