[Greasemonkey] GPL compatibility

Mark Pilgrim pilgrim at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 16:33:22 EDT 2005


On 5/28/05, Mark Pilgrim <pilgrim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/28/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > GPL is fine by me. Actually, I'd prefer something more like the
> > Academic Free License because it doesn't restrict mods to being as
> > open as the original.
> 
> Well that wouldn't really be a step in the right direction, since the
> Academic Free License isn't GPL-compatible either.
> 
> If you want to allow proprietary derivative works of Greasemonkey
> itself, then I recommend the MIT license or the BSD-new license.

We've heard from 2 of the 3 (?) GM developers agreeing to re-licensing
GM to GPL.  No word from Nikolas Coukouma.  Are there other
contributors that would need to agree?

-- 
Cheers,
-Mark


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