[Greasemonkey] GPL compatibility

[Terry Lurie]

As an occasional interloper on these lists, and zero contributor of
copyrighted code, I don't have much sway.

But I do have an opinion, and will keep it brief.

A lot of commercial companies will not touch GPL software. Commercial
companies are not all blood sucking. Having commercial companies
express interest is often a good thing for the overall project.

My case in point is ogre3d -- www.ogre3d.org . It only started being
widely used after it switched from the GPL to LGPL.

My rather insignificant vote would be LGPL, where any modifications to
GreaseMonkey would have to be contributed back, but commercial people
could still do their thing with sensitive data.

Examples where commercial/private interests may want to extend GM are
say operators that have proprietary codecs which they would love to
open as free-as-in-beer. GPL restricts this.

A good argument could be made that such people should write a custom
XPI and call that instead, but hey. Who knows where GM could go?

LGPL stops business getting the jitters.